building regulations in
bus transit in
Eiffel Tower in
housing in
La Défense in
Montparnasse Tower in
paving of
planning of
police force formed in
restaurants in
schools in
sewage system in
transit and income zones in
parks
Pascal, Blaise
patent citations
Patni Computers
Pedro II, Emperor
Penn Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pericles
Perlman, Philip
Philadelphia
Main Line in
transit and income zones in
water supply in
Philip Augustus
Phoenix
Phukan, Ruban
Pinker, Steven
Pirelli, Giovanni Battista
Pittsburgh
plague
Plato
police
policies, see public policies
politics
ethnic
power and
social groups and
Ponti, Gio
populations:
loss of
new building and
wages and
Potemkin villages
Poulsen, Valdemar
Poundbury
poverty
rural
suburban
poverty, urban
African Americans and
and attraction of poor to cities
education and
in favelas
and helping people vs. places
in megacities
path to prosperity from
public policies’ magnification of
in Rio
slums and ghettos
transportation and
Prada, Miuccia
preservation
in New York City
printing press
prisons
Procopius
productivity
education and
geographic proximity and
impact of peers on
skills and
wages and
Promise Academy
property rights
prosperity and wealth
education and
environmentalism and
path from urban poverty to
urbanization and
Protestantism
public policies
building restrictions
consumer cities and
education and
environmental; see also environmentalism
helping people vs. places
immigration and
industrial
land-use regulations
level playing field in
national
NIMBYism and
poverty magnified by
preservation, see preservation
suburban living encouraged by
urban poverty and
zoning ordinances, see zoning ordinances
public spaces
publishing:
in New York
printing technology and
Pulitzer, Joseph
quality of life
Quigley, John
Raffles, Thomas Stamford
rail travel
Ramsay, Gordon
Rand, Ayn
Ranieri, Lewis
Raytheon
recession
Reformation
Renaissance
restaurants
Richardson, Ralph
Richmond
right-to-work states
Rio de Janeiro
favelas in
transportation in
riots
River Rouge plant
Riverside
roads
asphalt paving for
highways
New York City streets
traffic congestion and, see traffic congestion
Robson Square
Rochester (Minnesota)
Rochester (New York)
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rogers, Richard
Roman Empire
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Root, John
Rosen, Aby
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Roze de Chantoiseau, Mathurin
rural areas
poverty in
Ruskin, John
Rust Belt
Sacerdote, Bruce
Sacramento
St. Louis
Saiz, Albert
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
San Jose
São Paulo
Saxenian, AnnaLee
schools
busing and
charter
costs of
curriculum in
in France
improving
in New Orleans
poverty and
Promise Academy
quality of
in suburbs
teachers in
voucher programs for
in The Woodlands
see also education and skills
Schuetz, Jenny
Scientific American
Seaside
Second City
segregation
busing and
zoning ordinances and
September 11 attacks
Shakespeare, William
Shanghai
Sheffield
Shenzhen
ships and waterways
Shockley, William B.
shrinking to greatness
Siemens, Werner von
Silicon Valley
information technology industry in
Singapore
building construction in
traffic congestion in
Sister Carrie (Dreiser)
skills, see education and skills
skyscrapers
Slim, Carlos
slums and ghettos
Rio’s favelas
Smith, Adam
Smith, Al
smoking
Snow, John
socialism
social conventions
social networks
South:
African-American exodus from
right-to-work states in
see also Sunbelt
Spacey, Kevin
Spain
specialization
Sprague, Frank
sprawl
see also suburbs
Stanford, Leland
Stanford University
Stanley, Henry Morton
status quo bias
steam engines
Stephenson, George
Stigler, George
stimulus bill
streetcars
streets, see roads
Strong, William L.
suburbs
author’s move to
cooking in
environment and
planned communities
poverty in
public policies and
reverse commuting and
schools in
in Sunbelt, see Sunbelt
subways
successful cities
Atlanta
Boston, see Boston
Chicago, see Chicago
Dubai
Gaborone
human capital in
Milan
Minneapolis
Singapore, see Singapore
Tokyo
Vancouver
sugar production
suicide
Sullivan, Louis
Sunbelt
Supreme Court
Sutton, Willie
Swed
en
Swift, Gustavus
Syracuse
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Tammany Hall
Target
taxes
breaks for businesses
on carbon emissions
construction projects and
in Detroit
on gas
home mortgage deduction
income
in New York City
property
in Texas
technology
telephone calls
Ten Point Coalition
Terman, Frederick
terrorism
Texas
Dallas
Harris County
housing in
Houston, see Houston
taxes in
The Woodlands
textile, garment, and fashion industries
theater
medieval
Thoreau, Henry David
Tokyo
tourists
traffic congestion
in London
in Mumbai
in Singapore
transportation
automobiles, see automobiles
buses
carbon emissions and
communities shaped by
costs of, for businesses
electricity and
funding for
highways
by horse
internal combustion engine and
new types of, three phases of
pack animals and
poverty and
public
rail
ships and waterways
steam engine and
streetcars
subways
time involved in
walking
wheel and
see also commuting
Trenton
Trevithick, Richard
Troesken, Werner
trucks
Turner, Matthew
Tuskegee Airmen
typhoid fever
Uncle Tom’s Children (Wright)
unemployment
unions
in Britain
closed shops and
in India
Levitt and
strikes and
teachers’
United Auto Workers (UAW)
universities
Upright Citizens Brigade
Van Alen, William
Vancouver
Vancouverism
Vaux, Calvert
Velez, Leila
Venice
Versace, Gianni
Vickrey, William
videoconferencing
Vienna
Village Voice
Visvesvaraya, Sir Mokshagundam
Von Neumann, John
voters
wages, see income and wages
Wagner, Robert
Wainwright Building
Walden (Thoreau)
Walden Pond
Walker, C. J.
walking
Wall Street Journal
Wang, Rui
Wang Laboratories
Ward, Bryce
Waring, George
Washington, D.C.
Washington, George
water supplies
waterways and ships
Watt, James
wealth, see prosperity and wealth
Weber, Max
Weill, Sandy
welfare
West Bengal
wetlands
wheels
Wight, Peter B.
Williams, “Clubber,”
Wilson, William Julius
Wirth, Louis
Whitman, Meg
Winthrop, John
Wolfe, Tom
Woodlands, The
Wordsworth, William
World Building
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Richard
Yahoo!
yellow fever
Yerkes, Charles
Young, Coleman
Youngstown
Zheng, Siqi
zoning ordinances
in New York City
race-based
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - What Do They Make in Bangalore?
CHAPTER 2 - Why Do Cities Decline?
CHAPTER 3 - What’s Good About Slums?
CHAPTER 4 - How Were the Tenements Tamed?
CHAPTER 5 - Is London a Luxury Resort?
CHAPTER 6 - What’s So Great About Skyscrapers?
CHAPTER 7 - Why Has Sprawl Spread?
CHAPTER 8 - Is There Anything Greener Than Blacktop?
CHAPTER 9 - How Do Cities Succeed?
CONCLUSION:
Acknowledgements
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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