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.
偶然的一次机会拿到这本书,两周的时间断断续续读完,文字翻译得不枯燥,有一点报告性质的文笔,字里行间流露出作者毕生的经历思考,对于城市的发展,书中列举了很多世界城市成功的历程,如新加坡、巴黎;也有发展没落的城市,如美国的底特律。再次想到那句话,以史为鉴,可以...
评分城市的地位和未来 花旗和Economic Intelligence Unit最近出了一份报告,预测城市化的发展方向。如今世界有一半以上的人口生活在城市里,创造了80%的GDP;而每年有6000万人进入城市生活,所以到21世纪中期就会有七成的人口生活在城市里。在这个期间,几乎所有的经济增长,都将...
评分这本书的标题,以及其英文副标题"How our greatest invention makes us richer,smarter,greener,healthier and happier",毫不含糊地表明了作者的立场。对于一个在城市问题上受Lewis Mumford启蒙且深受其害的读者来说,对这样的观点自然不敢苟同。同时作为一个学经济学的人,我...
评分偶然的一次机会拿到这本书,两周的时间断断续续读完,文字翻译得不枯燥,有一点报告性质的文笔,字里行间流露出作者毕生的经历思考,对于城市的发展,书中列举了很多世界城市成功的历程,如新加坡、巴黎;也有发展没落的城市,如美国的底特律。再次想到那句话,以史为鉴,可以...
评分城市的地位和未来 花旗和Economic Intelligence Unit最近出了一份报告,预测城市化的发展方向。如今世界有一半以上的人口生活在城市里,创造了80%的GDP;而每年有6000万人进入城市生活,所以到21世纪中期就会有七成的人口生活在城市里。在这个期间,几乎所有的经济增长,都将...
读了此书中的两章,主要讲贫民窟的正面和重要作用:贫民窟在群体从农村到城市转移的过程中往往是重要的环节,但它的存在并不代表着贫困的持续,相反,这个环节给绝对贫困的农村人口提供了获取城市资源的空间。
评分推荐,好书。
评分这书真的一般。掉书袋,太简化问题,是我讨厌的部分。而且,看全是字的书真的快把我逼疯了。
评分读了此书中的两章,主要讲贫民窟的正面和重要作用:贫民窟在群体从农村到城市转移的过程中往往是重要的环节,但它的存在并不代表着贫困的持续,相反,这个环节给绝对贫困的农村人口提供了获取城市资源的空间。
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