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.
当下,全球有一半的人生活在城市之中。在发展中国家,每个月有5百万人从乡下移民到城市之中。 作者认为,城市是人类最伟大的发明。cities “our species’ greatest invention”。 作者罗列了城市的好处: 在城市聚集的影响下,聪明的人互相触碰; 专业...
评分一本論述城市發展的書,或說是鼓吹城市擴大發展的論述。其內容核心價值其實是節能環保 ~【若你熱愛自然,就離自然遠一點】,其次是城市較有利於知識密集而能激發創意,帶來發展。 這本書讓我想起去年有一本【落腳城市】的書,其藉由描述世界各大都市貧民區的故事,來推論貧民...
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...
评分其实这本书去年四月回harvard时,就在coop买好了。眨眼间放在书柜都快一年了,眼见中文版在国内如火如荼,业内人士纷纷引为圣经,我才想起来看。 个人对glasaer的期待是,用城市经济学的视角来描述城市的现象,凡事能有个理由,而非简单现象的罗列。这本书最初的两章还是很有...
评分一本論述城市發展的書,或說是鼓吹城市擴大發展的論述。其內容核心價值其實是節能環保 ~【若你熱愛自然,就離自然遠一點】,其次是城市較有利於知識密集而能激發創意,帶來發展。 這本書讓我想起去年有一本【落腳城市】的書,其藉由描述世界各大都市貧民區的故事,來推論貧民...
适合碎片化阅读。Center on people rather than places
评分是本好书,不过我读的太晚很多道理都懂了。
评分很多观点非常有意思。
评分还行,有些观点还是不错的
评分读起来相当舒服的一本书。清晰易懂。不过很奇怪经济学的书不用在正文里面引用,全放在书最后了。另外,更想住在Boston了。
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