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Provides insights into the most recent theoretical advances achieved in a specific area of urban economics...recommended. (Italian Journal of Regional Science )
A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities.America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.
One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal. From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of what we seek in a place to call home. Community, places of culture and business that we can walk to, mass transit and a wealth of amenities that couldn't be supported without a city's density: the mid-century drive to suburbanization deprived us of these inherent advantages of urban living. The realization of this loss, in tandem with pressing recent concerns about energy scarcity and global warming, has made us see cities with fresh eyes and a growing understanding that they can provide us with an unparalleled measure of sustainability. Ken Greenberg has not only advocated for the renewal of downtown cores, he has for thirty years designed the very means by which that renewal can happen. Walking Home is both Ken's story and a lesson in turning the world's urban spaces back into places that can give us not only a platform to face the challenges of the future, but also a place we can call, with pride and satisfaction, home. "From the Hardcover edition."
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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life 
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Fascinating (Guardian )
Provocative (Financial Times )
Dazzling ... Aerotropolis points out that we can still address the oldest needs but in new and liberating ways (Time )
Fascinating and important ... blend[s] jargon-free scholarship with shoe-leather reporting to tell readers why they're living and working as they are ... Kasarda and Lindsay are onto something big (Bloomsberg Businessweek )
The closest thing to a real-world vision to rival that of [H. G.] Wells ... a mind-expanding ride that reminds us, once again, that humanity needs no apocalypse to reinvent itself (World Politics Review )
Aerotropolis redraws the world map ... This lively, thought-provoking book is must reading for anyone interested in how and where we will live and work in a truly global era (Richard Florida (Author Of The Great Reset) )
Thrilling ... the authors are undoubtedly right (Wall Street Journal )
If you want to be way ahead of the curve in understanding one of the most important drivers of change for the 21st century, read this book (Paul Romer (Founder Of Charter Cities) )
Fascinating ... The brave new world is on the way, and it's coming in by air (Kirkus Reviews )
An insightful, lavishly researched account, full of the micro-data of interconnectedness: the far-flung factories that produce our computers and flat-screen televisions, the state of the art hospitals in Thailand angling for Western customers priced out of the American health care system (Los Angeles Review of Books )
A prismatic display of the future of the global economy through a sharp and revealing new lens. It makes the mind travel (Barnes & Noble Review )
Required reading for economists, business studies students, architects, urban planners, sociologists - and more than a few novelists and essayists (Independent )
Fascinating ... enthralling (New Yorker )
A fascinating window into the complex emergent urban future. This book is an extremely sophisticated, often devastatingly witty and ironic, interpretation of what is possible over the next two decades (Saskia Sassen (Author Of Territory, Authority, Rights) )
Throw out your old atlas. The new version is here (Walter Kirn (Author Of Up In The Air) )
Kasarda ... and Lindsay convincingly put the airport at the centre of modern urban life (Economist )
Highly recommended (Library Journal )
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