Triumph of the city (Record no. 40167)
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| fixed length control field | 04339 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780330458078 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 711.4 |
| Item number | GLA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Glaeser, Edward |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Triumph of the city |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Pan Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii,338p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | CONTENT<br/>INTRODUCTION Our Urban Species 1 <br/>CHAPTER 1: What Do They Make in Bangalore? 17 <br/>Ports of Intellectual Entry: Athens 19<br/>Baghdad's House of Wisdom 21<br/>Learning in Nagasaki 23<br/>How Bangalore Became a Boom Town 24<br/>Education and Urban Success 27<br/>The Rise of Silicon Valley 29<br/>The Cities of Tomorrow 34<br/>CHAPTER 2: Why Do Cities Decline? 41<br/>How the Rust Belt Rose 43<br/>Detroit Before Cars 46<br/>Henry Ford and Industrial Detroit 49<br/>Why Riot? 52<br/>Urban Reinvention: New York Since 1970 56<br/>The Righteous Rage of Coleman Young 58<br/>The Curley Effect 60<br/>The Edifice Complex 61<br/>Remaining in the Rust Belt 63<br/>Shrinking to Greatness 64<br/>CHAPTER 3: What's Good About Slums? 69 <br/> Rio's Favelas 72<br/> Moving On Up 76<br/> Richard Wright's Urban Exodus 79<br/> Rise and Fall of the American Ghetto 81<br/> The Inner City 85<br/> How Policy Magnifies Poverty 86 <br/>CHAPTER 4: How Were the Tenements Tamed? 93<br/> The Plight of Kinshasa 95<br/> Healing Sick Cities 97<br/> Street Cleaning and Corruption 101 <br/> More Roads, Less Traffic? 104 <br/> Making Cities Safer 106 <br/> Health Benefits 114<br/>CHAPTER 5: Is London a Luxury Resort? 117 <br/>Scale Economies and the Globe Theatre 119<br/>The Division of Labor and Lamb Vindaloo122<br/>Shoes and the City 126 <br/>London as Marriage 127<br/>Market When Are High Wages Bad? 129<br/>CHAPTER 6: What's So Great About Skyscrapers? 135<br/> Inventing the Skyscraper 136 <br/> The Soaring Ambition of A. E. Lefcourt 140<br/> Regulating New York 142<br/> Fear of Heights 144<br/> The Perils of Preservation 148<br/> Rethinking Paris 152<br/> Mismanagement in Mumbai 157<br/> Three simple rules 161<br/>CHAPTER 7: Why Has Sprawl<br/> Spread? 165 <br/> Sprawl Before Cars 167<br/>William Levitt and Mass-Produced Housing 174<br/>Rebuilding America Around the Car 177<br/>Welcome to The Woodlands 180 <br/> Accounting for Tastes: Why a Million <br/> People Moved to Houston 183<br/>Why Is Housing So Cheap in the Sunbelt? 188<br/> What's Wrong with Sprawl? 193<br/>CHAPTER 8: Is There Anything <br/>Greener Than Blacktop? 199<br/> The Dream of Garden Living 202 <br/> Dirty Footprints: Comparing Carbon <br/> Emissions 206<br/> The Unintended Consequences of <br/> Environmentalism 210 <br/> Two Green Visions: The Prince and the <br/> Mayor 213 <br/> The Biggest Battle: Greening India and <br/> China 217<br/> Seeking Smarter Environmentalism 220<br/>CHAPTER 9: How Do Cities Succeed? 223<br/> The Imperial City: Tokyo 224<br/> The Well-Managed City: Singapore and Gaborone 227<br/> The Smart City: Boston, Minneapolis, and <br/> Milan 231<br/> The Consumer City: Vancouver 238<br/> The Growing City: Chicago and Atlanta 241<br/> Too Much of a Good Thing in Dubai 244<br/>CONCLUSION: Flat World, Tall City247<br/>Give Cities a Level Playing Field 249<br/>Urbanization Through Globalization 251<br/> Lend a Hand to Human Capital 253<br/> Help Poor People, Not Poor Places 255<br/> The Challenge of Urban Poverty 257<br/> The Rise of the Consumer City 259<br/> The Curse of NIMBYism 260<br/> The Bias Toward Sprawl 264 <br/> Green Cities 267<br/> Gifts of the City 268<br/>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 271<br/>NOTES 275<br/>BIBLIOGRAPHY 307<br/>INDEX 325 <br/><br/> |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 54865 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | GENERAL |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 04/10/2017 | Astha Book Agency | 399.00 | 21 | 26 | 711.4 GLA | 017830 | 24/10/2024 | 30/08/2024 | 499.00 | 25/05/2017 | Book | ||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 15/04/2019 | Gratis | 0.00 | 19 | 27 | 711.4 GLA | 020477 | 30/08/2024 | 10/06/2024 | 949.05 | 13/02/2019 | Book |