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

Edward L. Glaeser

A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future.

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It was mentioned as a book that promotes the benefits of cities, particularly New York, and was described as having a lot of data to support its claims.

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He wrote a wonderful book years ago called Triumph of the City and the subtitle is something like how our greatest invention makes us happier, richer, smarter, greener and something else.

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It was mentioned as a book that promotes the benefits of cities, particularly New York, and was described as having a lot of data to support its claims.

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He wrote a wonderful book years ago called Triumph of the City and the subtitle is something like how our greatest invention makes us happier, richer, smarter, greener and something else.

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