Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier

By Edward L. Glaeser. 2011

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Subfields: Media Technology, Urban Studies

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In Media Technology

1. T. Kuran
2. A. Todes
3. Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
4. J. Cleland
5. P. Ellis
6. Maarten Bosker
7. Bernhard Gill
8. S. Moeller

In Urban Studies

1. I. Turok
2. T. Kuran
3. A. Todes
4. Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
5. J. Cleland
6. P. Ellis
7. Maarten Bosker
8. Bernhard Gill

Citations in the corpus

• Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability (2019, background): “Areas that are seeing especially high productivity gains, like New York, San Francisco, San Jose, and Boston, have not seen population growth to match those gains (Glaeser, 2011).”
• City Seeds. Geography and the Origins of the European City System (2017, background): “Throughout history, cities have been the important loci for technological innovation, institutional progress, (international) trade, political power, and culture (Pirenne, 1925; Glaeser, 2011).”
• Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: Place-based or people-centred? (2017, background): “All rights reserved. processes, agglomeration economies and institutions (Barca, McCann, & Rodriguez-Pose, 2012; Glaeser, 2011; Pike, Rodriguez-Pose, & Tomaney, 2012; Pike, Rodriguez-Pose, & Tomaney, 2017; Storper, 2013).”
• Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia: Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability (2015, background): “Glaeser has noted, “If I’m close enough to sell a newspaper, you’re close enough to rob me” (Glaeser 2011).”
• World Population Growth; Past, Present and Future (2013, background): “Cities are often the engine of economic growth and innovation (Glaeser 2011), though it is uncertain whether this characterisation applies in Africa where urbanisation is driven more by rural poverty than by the attraction of well paid jobs in manufacturing.”
• Accessibility in Cities: Transport and Urban Form (2017, neutral): “A further key priority for compact city policy is reforming inappropriate building density limitations (which exist, for example, in many Indian cities) (Glaeser 2011; Suzuki, Cervero et al. 2013).”
• Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications (2019, neutral): “That is the view posited in Glaeser’s Triumph of the City (Glaeser, 2011: 1): “Urban density provides the clearest path from poverty to prosperity”.”
• GHG Emissions and the Rural-Urban Divide. A Carbon Footprint Analysis Based on the German Official Income and Expenditure Survey (2018, background): “More compact building structures reduce the surface-area-to-volume ratio, and with it the loss of energy (Glaeser, 2011b).”
• Land pricing and its impact on land use efficiency in post-land-reform China: A case study of Beijing (2016, background): “improvementof labor skills, increase in investment intensity, and improvement of the overall business management; growth of urban population density can also prompt urbanproductivity through facilitating knowledge exchange (Glaeser, 2011).”
• Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation (2018, neutral): “…and services spreads spatially according to market access conditions, thereby concentrating employment opportunities in cities and towns (Christiaensen & Todo, 2014), fuelling urbanisation, and agglomeration economies associated with improved health and education opportunities (Glaeser, 2011).”
• How does urbanization affect farmland protection? Evidence from China (2019, background): “In terms of urbanization patterns, large cities may have an agglomeration effect and consume less land per capita (Glaeser, 2012).”
• Are cities the font of innovation? A critical review of the literature on cities and innovation (2012, neutral): “…as a determinant of innovation—and cities (e.g. Andersson, Andersson, & Mellander, 2011; Cooke & Lazaretti, 2008; Florida, 2002; Landry, 2008; Montgomery, 2008), cities’ creative capital (e.g. Krätke, 2011), or, quite simply, their triumph as humankind’s greatest invention (e.g. Glaeser, 2011).”
• Urbanization and poverty reduction - the role of rural diversification and secondary towns (2013, neutral): “This is welcomed as a most positive development by some observers, as exemplified in “The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier” (Glazer, 2011).”