Triumph of the City读书介绍
类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
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书籍 | 352页 | 2020 | Macmillan |
定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
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GBP 25.00 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-09-25 … | 85 |
In 2009, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population lived in cities. In a time when family, friends and co-workers are a call, text, or email away, 3.3 billion people on this planet still choose to crowd together in skyscrapers, high-rises, subways and buses. Not too long ago, it looked like our cities were dying, but in fact they boldly threw themselves into the information age, adapting and evolving to become the gateways to a globalized and interconnected world. Now more than ever, the well-being of human society depends upon our knowledge of how the city lives and breathes. Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can't my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In THE TRIUMPH OF CITIES, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them.
作者简介爱德华•格莱泽(Edward Glaeser),芝加哥大学博士、哈佛大学经济学教授,陶布曼国家和地方政府研究中心主任、拉帕波特大波士顿研究所负责人、曼哈顿研究中心高级研究员,《城市期刊》(City Journal)特约编辑。格莱泽侧重于从经济学角度去研究城市、住宅、种族隔离、肥胖、犯罪、创新等课题,并为《纽约时报》的博客Economix撰写过大量有关此类主题的文章。
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