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by Edward Glaeser


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  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

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  Masaccio

  Massachusetts

  Boston, see Boston

  Massey, Geoffrey

  Massey, Raymond

  Maybach, Wilhelm

  McCarty, Francis

  McHarg, Ian

  McMechen, George W. F.

  medieval era

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  megacities

  Mellon, Andrew

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  Moving to Opportunity

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  building restrictions in

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  Dharavi neighborhood of

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  transportation network in

  Mumford, Lewis

  murder

  Murthy, Narayana

  museums

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  Mysore

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  Napoléon III, Emperor

  Nashville

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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  Native Son (Wright)

  neighborhood preservation, see preservation

  Netherlands

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  New Brighton

  New Deal

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  Hurricane Katrina in

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  New Urbanism

  New York City

  African Americans in

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  Fifth Avenue Commission in

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  Giuliani as mayor of

  globalization and

  Greenwich Village

  Harlem Children’s Zone in

  Harlem Renaissance in

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  Hell’s Kitchen

  housing in

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  industries in

  Koch as mayor of

  Lindsay as mayor of

  Lower East Side

  marital statistics in

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  Penn Station in

  poor in

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  port of

  preservation in

  Promise Academy in

  public transportation in

  publishing industry in

  rebirth of

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  reverse commuting and

  rise of

  September 11 attack on

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  sprawl in

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  Tammany Hall in

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  travel between Boston and

  Upper East Side

  wages in

  Washington Square

  water supply for

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  New York Panorama

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  Nimitz, Chester

  9/11 attacks

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  Paris

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  paving of

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  parks

  Pascal, Blaise

  patent citations

  Patni Computers

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  Perlman, Philip

  Philadelphia

  Main Line in

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  water supply in

  Philip Augustus

  Phoenix

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  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

  Sweden

  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

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  housing in

  Houston, see Houston

  taxes in

  The Woodlands

  textile, garment, and fashion industries

  theater

  medieval

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Tokyo

  tourists

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  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

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sp; 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

 

 

 


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