Germany
ghettos, see slums and ghettos
Gielgud, John
Giuliani, Rudy
globalization
New York City and
skills and
global trade
global warming
Gompers, Samuel
government
corruption in
democratic
dictatorships
public policies of, see public policies
Grand Rapids
Great Lakes
Great Recession
Greece, ancient
greenbelts
Greenblatt, Stephen
Greene, Robert
greenhouse effect
Green Metropolis (Owen)
Greenville
Griffin, Kenneth
groceries
grocery stores
Guggenheim Museum
gun ownership
Gutenberg, Johannes
Hamilton, Alexander
Hancock, John
happiness
Hart, Lorenz
Haydn, Joseph
Harlem Children’s Zone
Harlem Renaissance
Harvard, John
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène
Hawkins, W. Ashbie
health, see disease and health
Henry IV, King
Hershey
highways
hip-hop
Holland
Home Insurance Building
homicide
Honda
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Hood, Raymond
Horace
horse travel
housing, homes
African Americans and
in California
in Chicago
construction costs of
in Dallas
depreciation of
in Detroit
fair-housing laws
federal policies on
heating and cooling of
home ownership
in Houston
land availability and
in Leipzig
Levittown
in Los Angeles
mass-produced
middle-income families and
mortgages and
in New York City
in Paris
population growth and
price swings in
relationship between supply and affordability of
renting of
in Santa Clara County
second homes
in Sunbelt
vouchers for
wages and
in Youngstown
Housing and Urban Development, Department of
Houston
building construction in
carbon emissions in
commuting in
energy use in
Galleria shopping mall in
housing in
The Woodlands
Howard, Ebenezer
human capital
see also education and skills
Hunt, Richard Morris
Hurricane Katrina
Ibibo
ideas and innovation
in Bangalore
and cities as gateways between cultures
knowledge-destroying, in decline of Detroit
in medieval world
in New York City
proximity and
talent and creativity
see also entrepreneurship
Illinois
immigrants
in Boston
in Canada
Irish
nativism and
in New York City
restaurants and
impact bias
income and wages
crime rate and
in Detroit
gap between urban and rural areas
in Harris County, Texas
housing costs and
middle-income families
in New York City
population size and
productivity and
skills and
India
Bangalore, see Bangalore
building restrictions in
carbon emissions in
cars in
crime in
government in
growth patterns in
information technology industry in
Kolkata
Mumbai, see Mumbai
Mysore
urbanization in
Indonesia
industrial cities
industry and manufacturing
large, vertically integrated firms in
in New York City
information technology
in India
Jevons’s paradox and
in Silicon Valley
Infosys
infrastructure
building new
restaurants and
spending on
water supplies
Interfaith
Internet
Iowa
Irish immigrants
Islamic world
Italy
Milan
Jacobs, Jane
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jacobs, Robert
Japan
education in
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Jefferson, Thomas
Jenney, William Le Baron
Jerusalem
Jevons, William Stanley
complementarity corollary of
paradox of
jobs
business tax breaks and
crime rate and
diversity of
outsourcing of
unemployment
wages from, see income and wages
Johnson, Edward C.
Johnson, Samuel
Jonson, Ben
Kahn, Matthew
Kain, John
Kean, Edmund
Kennedy, Joe
Kennedy, Patrick
Kennedy, Patrick, Jr.
Kennedy family
Kentlands
Kerner Commission
Khama, Seretse
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kinshasa
knowledge-destroying idea
Koch, Ed
Kolkata
Kravis, Henry
Krier, Leon
Kyd, Thomas
labor, division of
labor unions, see unions
Lagos
Lake Erie
land availability
Landmarks Preservation Commission
land-use regulations
building restrictions
preservation and, see preservation
zoning ordinances, see zoning ordinances
Lang, Fritz
Las Vegas
Latrobe, Benjamin
law enforcement
Le Corbusier
Lee Bok Boon
Lee Kuan Yew
Lefcourt, A. E.
Leicester, Earl of
Leipzig
Leopold, King
Levitt, Arthur
Levitt, Steven
Levitt, William
Levittown
life expectancy
Lillehei, Walt
Lindsay, John
Little, Arthur D.
Liverpool
Livingstone, “Red” Ken
London
Bond Street in
building construction in
bus transit in
cholera in
Green Belt of
Indian immigrants in
Livingstone as mayor of
restaurants in
tailors in
theater in
traffic congestion in
Los Angeles
health in
housing
in
theater in
Louis XIV, King
Louis XV, King
Louisville
Lowell, Francis Cabot
Luther, Martin
Manchester
Manhattan Company
management counseling
manufacturing, see industry and manufacturing
Maple, Jack
Maria Theresa, Empress
Marlowe, Christopher
marriage
Marshall, Alfred
Marshall, Thurgood
Marseilles
Marx, Karl
Masaccio
Massachusetts
Boston, see Boston
Massey, Geoffrey
Massey, Raymond
Maybach, Wilhelm
McCarty, Francis
McHarg, Ian
McMechen, George W. F.
medieval era
Medtronic
megacities
Mellon, Andrew
Memphis
Merton, Robert
Metropolis
Mexico City
Miami
Midland
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
MIH Holdings
Milan
Milken, Michael
Milliken v. Bradley
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Missouri
Mitchell, George Phydias
Mittal, Lakshmi
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mohammed, Sheikh
Monkkonen, Eric
Montreal
Moses, Robert
Moving to Opportunity
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mumbai
building restrictions in
crime in
Dharavi neighborhood of
disease in
traffic congestion in
transportation network in
Mumford, Lewis
murder
Murthy, Narayana
museums
music
Mysore
Nagasaki
Napoléon I, Emperor
Napoléon III, Emperor
Nashville
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Native Son (Wright)
neighborhood preservation, see preservation
Netherlands
Nevins, Allan
New Brighton
New Deal
New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina in
poor in
New Urbanism
New York City
African Americans in
age statistics in
Bloomberg as mayor of
building construction in
Central Park
commuting in
crime in
death rates in
decline of
entrepreneurs in
environmental footprint of
fair-housing law in
Fifth Avenue Commission in
finance in
founding of
garment and fashion industries in
garment worker strike in
Giuliani as mayor of
globalization and
Greenwich Village
Harlem Children’s Zone in
Harlem Renaissance in
health in
Hell’s Kitchen
housing in
immigrants in
industries in
Koch as mayor of
Lindsay as mayor of
Lower East Side
marital statistics in
Midtown Manhattan
Penn Station in
poor in
population explosion in
port of
preservation in
Promise Academy in
public transportation in
publishing industry in
rebirth of
restaurants in
reverse commuting and
rise of
September 11 attack on
social connections in
sprawl in
streets in
subways in
suicides in
Tammany Hall in
taxes in
theater in
transit and income zones in
travel between Boston and
Upper East Side
wages in
Washington Square
water supply for
zoning regulations in
New York Panorama
New York Philharmonic
New York State
energy consumption in
parkway system of
New York Times
NIMBYism
Nimitz, Chester
9/11 attacks
Norberg, Karen
Obama, Barack
Oklahoma City
Old Vic Theatre Company
Olivier, Laurence
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Otis, Elisha
O’Toole, Peter
Otto, Nikolaus
Owen, David
Paris
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