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Triumph of the city

How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier

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Triumph of the city
Published in October 2011 - Page 41

Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
The Penguin Press, New York, NY
ISBN: 978-1-59420-277-3

Ed Glaeser is a professor of economics at Harvard, specializing in the dynamics of cities, and heads up that university’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He also writes regularly about urban issues for The New York Times (follow his blog at ) and City Journal.

As stated in the title, Glaeser thinks of the city as humankind’s

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