Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

Mr. Glaeser is an unabashed advocate of the importance of cities. This doesn’t mean he approves of the current state of our cities, but in fact, his study offers useful and insightful ideas to better our inventory, as listed below. His final words in the chapter entitled Gifts of the City; “I suspect that in the long run, the twentieth century fling with suburban living will look, just like the brief age of the [crowded, dangerous and ugly] industrial city, more like an aberration than a trend.”