Triumph of the City How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

Name: Triumph of the City How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Price: 2.62 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781594202773

ISBN-10: 159420277X

ISBN-13: 9781594202773

Edition: 2011

Authors: Edward Glaeser

List price: $29.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

5 new & used from $2.62

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly... Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live. New Yorkers, for instance, live longer than other Americans; heart disease and cancer rates are lower in Gotham than in the nation as a whole. More…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/10/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a research associate and director of the Urban Economics Working Group at the NBER.