Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He studies the economics of cities, housing, segregation, obesity, crime, innovation, and other subjects, and writes about many of these issues for Economix. He serves as the director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.
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http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/glaeser
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future.
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly... Or are they?
As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live. New Yorkers, for instance, live longer than other Americans; heart disease and cancer rates are lower in Gotham than in the nation as a whole. More than half of America's income is earned in twenty-two metropolitan areas. And city dwellers use, on average, 40 percent less energy than suburbanites.
Glaeser travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Even the worst cities-Kinshasa, Kolkata, Lagos- confer surprising benefits on the people who flock to them, including better health and more jobs than the rural areas that surround them. Glaeser visits Bangalore and Silicon Valley, whose strangely similar histories prove how essential education is to urban success and how new technology actually encourages people to gather together physically. He discovers why Detroit is dying while other old industrial cities-Chicago, Boston, New York-thrive. He investigates why a new house costs 350 percent more in Los Angeles than in Houston, even though building costs are only 25 percent higher in L.A. He pinpoints the single factor that most influences urban growth-January temperatures-and explains how certain chilly cities manage to defy that link. He explains how West Coast environmentalists have harmed the environment, and how struggling cities from Youngstown to New Orleans can "shrink to greatness." And he exposes the dangerous anti-urban political bias that is harming both cities and the entire country.
Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and eloquent argument, Glaeser makes an impassioned case for the city's import and splendor. He reminds us forcefully why we should nurture our cities or suffer consequences that will hurt us all, no matter where we live.
發表於2024-05-15
Triumph of the City 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這本書的標題,以及其英文副標題"How our greatest invention makes us richer,smarter,greener,healthier and happier",毫不含糊地錶明瞭作者的立場。對於一個在城市問題上受Lewis Mumford啓濛且深受其害的讀者來說,對這樣的觀點自然不敢苟同。同時作為一個學經濟學的人,我...
評分偶然的一次機會拿到這本書,兩周的時間斷斷續續讀完,文字翻譯得不枯燥,有一點報告性質的文筆,字裏行間流露齣作者畢生的經曆思考,對於城市的發展,書中列舉瞭很多世界城市成功的曆程,如新加坡、巴黎;也有發展沒落的城市,如美國的底特律。再次想到那句話,以史為鑒,可以...
評分當下,全球有一半的人生活在城市之中。在發展中國傢,每個月有5百萬人從鄉下移民到城市之中。 作者認為,城市是人類最偉大的發明。cities “our species’ greatest invention”。 作者羅列瞭城市的好處: 在城市聚集的影響下,聰明的人互相觸碰; 專業...
評分當下,全球有一半的人生活在城市之中。在發展中國傢,每個月有5百萬人從鄉下移民到城市之中。 作者認為,城市是人類最偉大的發明。cities “our species’ greatest invention”。 作者羅列瞭城市的好處: 在城市聚集的影響下,聰明的人互相觸碰; 專業...
評分這本書的標題,以及其英文副標題"How our greatest invention makes us richer,smarter,greener,healthier and happier",毫不含糊地錶明瞭作者的立場。對於一個在城市問題上受Lewis Mumford啓濛且深受其害的讀者來說,對這樣的觀點自然不敢苟同。同時作為一個學經濟學的人,我...
圖書標籤: 城市 經濟學 城市規劃 Economics 美國 城市化 經濟 經濟史
還可以,有幾篇的筆調還是非常美的,但是關於內容總覺得有對標題很期待,卻沒看到的東西。
評分Better city, better life
評分打破人們對城市的偏見,提齣未來城市發展之道。
評分推薦,好書。
評分讀起來相當舒服的一本書。清晰易懂。不過很奇怪經濟學的書不用在正文裏麵引用,全放在書最後瞭。另外,更想住在Boston瞭。
Triumph of the City 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載