By Defeating My Enemies: Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War, Glaeser Michael

Автор: Glaeser, Edward
Название: Triumph of the City
ISBN: 0143120549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143120544
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities.

America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.

Автор: Edward Glaeser
Название: Triumph of the City
ISBN: 0330458078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330458078
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them

Автор: Glaeser, Edward
Название: Survival Of The City
ISBN: 0593297709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593297704
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated

Cities can make us sick. That's always been true--diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity's greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and civilization itself.

But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent; the normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world?

City life will survive, but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. But great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. In America, Glaeser and Cutler argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.

Автор: Glaeser, Edward
Название: Survival Of The City
ISBN: 0593297687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593297681
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are evolving, and must evolve further, in the face of the existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.

Cities make us sick. They always have, of course--diseases spread more easily when more people are in closer contact with each other. Public health has always been central to the story of urban flourishing, from the 19th century's drives to provide clean water and sanitation to the vaccine breakthroughs of the 20th and 21st. Disease is hardly the only ill cities produce; they have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity's greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom where the fabric of civilization is woven.

But cities now stand at a terrible crossroads. All over the world they have grown silent, as people work from home, if they can work at all, and normal forms of socializing have ground to a halt. Advances in digital technology mean people can opt out of city life as never before. Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? Almost certainly not, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, but no path is inevitable. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us. Older and more settled people may increasingly opt out of city life, but that will open cities up further for the young and the aspirational. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities can offer. But in the first place, our cities have to keep us healthy and safe; America's catastrophic health-care system is a menace to much else besides our cities, but its impact on urban life is enormous and too little understood. It is the cost behind so many other costs, including painful inequities in income and opportunity.

Survival of the City is a profound reckoning with where cities are right now and a clear-eyed and wise prognosis and prescription for the healthy future we so keenly need for them. The fate of the city, the authors show, is the fate of us all.

Автор: Glaesel Nille
Название: Viking: Dress Clothing Garment
ISBN: 1494475227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781494475222
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