A review by wingsyuenanna
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
4.0
I have just become familiar with the importance of living in cities before reading this book. Glaeser heavily emphasized the need to live in cities and to invest in people not in projects.
As I experience living in Cambridge, right next to Harvard and MIT, I see the impact of education hubs and programs daily. There are lots of improvements to be made in Boston (stronger public transportation infrastructure, expensive rent :'), for sure), but there are also a lot of things that make Boston/Cambridge work living in. It's safe to walk around most areas and there are many local programs to help with people. I have traveled to a handful of cities this year and I can Boston definitely is a very convincing place to live in for me.
Glaeser emphasized the need to be in close proximity with other people to get flow of ideas and the improvements in technology have not substituted this need. But, as with all things after Covid, there is a new argument that the internet can bring flow of ideas between people in very far places, which could change the need for cities from a non-environmental perspective.
As I experience living in Cambridge, right next to Harvard and MIT, I see the impact of education hubs and programs daily. There are lots of improvements to be made in Boston (stronger public transportation infrastructure, expensive rent :'), for sure), but there are also a lot of things that make Boston/Cambridge work living in. It's safe to walk around most areas and there are many local programs to help with people. I have traveled to a handful of cities this year and I can Boston definitely is a very convincing place to live in for me.
Glaeser emphasized the need to be in close proximity with other people to get flow of ideas and the improvements in technology have not substituted this need. But, as with all things after Covid, there is a new argument that the internet can bring flow of ideas between people in very far places, which could change the need for cities from a non-environmental perspective.