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免费 PRAISE FOR EDWARD GLAESER'S Triumph of the City
免费 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
免费 INTRODUCTION | Our Urban Species
免费 CHAPTER 1 | What Do They Make in Bangalore?
免费 Ports of Intellectual Entry: Athens
免费 Baghdad's House of Wisdom
免费 Learning in Nagasaki
免费 How Bangalore Became a Boom Town
免费 Education and Urban Success
免费 The Rise of Silicon Valley
免费 The Cities of Tomorrow
CHAPTER 2 | Why Do Cities Decline?
How the Rust Belt Rose
Detroit Before Cars
Henry Ford and Industrial Detroit
Why Riot?
Urban Reinvention: New York Since 1970
The Righteous Rage of Coleman Young
The Curley Effect
The Edifice Complex
Remaining in the Rust Belt
Shrinking to Greatness
CHAPTER 3 | What's Good About Slums?
Rio's Favelas
Moving On Up
Richard Wright's Urban Exodus
Rise and Fall of the American Ghetto
The Inner City
How Policy Magnifies Poverty
CHAPTER 4 | How Were the Tenements Tamed?
The Plight of Kinshasa
Healing Sick Cities
Street Cleaning and Corruption
More Roads, Less Traffic?
Making Cities Safer
Health Benefits
CHAPTER 5 | Is London a Luxury Resort?
Scale Economies and the Globe Theatre
The Division of Labor and Lamb Vindaloo
Shoes and the City
London as Marriage Market
When Are High Wages Bad?
CHAPTER 6 | What's So Great About Skyscrapers?
Inventing the Skyscraper
The Soaring Ambition of A. E. Lefcourt
Regulating New York
Fear of Heights
The Perils of Preservation
Rethinking Paris

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