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

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by Edward Glaeser


  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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