TY  - GEN
AU  - Glaeser, Edward
TI  - Triumph of the city
SN  - 9780330458078
U1  - 711.4 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan Books
KW  -  
N2  - CONTENT
INTRODUCTION Our Urban Species                1  
CHAPTER 1: What Do They Make in Bangalore? 17    
Ports of Intellectual Entry: Athens        19
Baghdad's House of Wisdom	        21
Learning in Nagasaki	        23
How Bangalore Became a Boom Town	   24
Education and Urban Success	        27
The Rise of Silicon Valley	        29
The Cities of Tomorrow	       34
CHAPTER 2: Why Do Cities Decline?	       41
How the Rust Belt Rose	       43
Detroit Before Cars	       46
Henry Ford and Industrial Detroit       49
Why Riot?                         	 52
Urban Reinvention: New York Since 1970 56
The Righteous Rage of Coleman Young	 58
The Curley Effect	 60
The Edifice Complex	 61
Remaining in the Rust Belt	 63
Shrinking to Greatness	 64
CHAPTER 3: What's Good About Slums?   69 
   Rio's Favelas              72
   Moving On Up           76
   Richard Wright's Urban Exodus      79
   Rise and Fall of the American Ghetto  81
   The Inner City                 85
   How Policy Magnifies Poverty    86    
CHAPTER 4: How Were the                Tenements Tamed?         93
  The Plight of Kinshasa             95
  Healing Sick Cities                 97
  Street Cleaning and Corruption     101            
  More Roads, Less Traffic?        104 
  Making Cities Safer             106    
  Health Benefits                 114
CHAPTER 5: Is London a Luxury Resort?         117                          
Scale Economies and the Globe Theatre  119
The Division of Labor and Lamb Vindaloo122
Shoes and the City                     126  
London as Marriage                 127
Market When Are High Wages Bad?    129
CHAPTER 6: What's So Great About Skyscrapers?               135
  Inventing the Skyscraper          136    
  The Soaring Ambition of A. E. Lefcourt 140
  Regulating New York           142
  Fear of Heights                  144
  The Perils of Preservation         148
  Rethinking Paris              152
  Mismanagement in Mumbai        157
  Three simple rules                 161
CHAPTER 7: Why Has Sprawl
 Spread?                  165                           
  Sprawl Before Cars            167
William Levitt and Mass-Produced Housing 174
Rebuilding America Around the Car      177
Welcome to The Woodlands              180     
 Accounting for Tastes: Why a Million    
 People Moved to Houston               183
Why Is Housing So Cheap in the Sunbelt? 188
  What's Wrong with Sprawl?            193
CHAPTER 8: Is There Anything 
Greener Than Blacktop?        199
  The Dream of Garden Living        202 
  Dirty Footprints: Comparing Carbon    
  Emissions                         206
  The Unintended Consequences of    
  Environmentalism                      210 
  Two Green Visions: The Prince and the   
  Mayor                                  213 
  The Biggest Battle: Greening India and 
  China                             217
  Seeking Smarter Environmentalism    220
CHAPTER 9: How Do Cities Succeed? 223
  The Imperial City: Tokyo               224
  The Well-Managed City: Singapore and Gaborone                                227
  The Smart City: Boston, Minneapolis, and    
  Milan                                  231
  The Consumer City: Vancouver         238
  The Growing City: Chicago and Atlanta 241
  Too Much of a Good Thing in Dubai    244
CONCLUSION: Flat World, Tall City247
Give Cities a Level Playing Field          249
Urbanization Through Globalization      251
  Lend a Hand to Human Capital        253
  Help Poor People, Not Poor Places    255
  The Challenge of Urban Poverty      257
  The Rise of the Consumer City       259
  The Curse of NIMBYism           260
  The Bias Toward Sprawl          264 
  Green Cities                      267
  Gifts of the City                 268
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS          271
NOTES                          275
BIBLIOGRAPHY            307
INDEX                       325 


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