Triumph of the City
How Urban Spaces Make Us Human
$37.89
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2012
Summary
A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them.
Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330458078 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330458078 |
| Author: | Edward Glaeser |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | Unabridged |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Pan Books |
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About The Author
Edward Glaeser
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard. He is widely regarded as one of the most innovative thinkers around and when not teaching has spent his professional life walking around and thinking about cities.
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