ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he directs the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal . He studies the economics of cities, housing, segregation, obesity, crime, innovation, and other subjects, and writes about many of these issues as a columnist for Bloomberg View.

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First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2011

Published in Penguin Books 2012

Ebook ISBN: 9781101475676

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Glaeser, Edward L. (Edward Ludwig), ———.

Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier / Edward L. Glaeser.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59420-277-3 (hc.)

ISBN 978-0-14-312054-4 (pbk.)

1. Urbanization. 2. Cities and towns—Growth. 3. Urban economics. 4. Urban sociology. I. Title.

HT361.G53 2011

307.76—dc22 2010034609

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