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SURVIVAL OF THE CITY - EDWARD GLAESER DAVID CUT...

Expansive and entertaining. . . . [A] fast-paced and highly readable journey . . . the book
serves as a useful tool in the effort to redefine the role of the city in an age of
increasingly polarized politics  and reminds us that urban health is—as Fiorello La Guardia
once remarked about cleaning the streets—not a Democratic or Republican issue.” —New York Times
Book ReviewOne of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to
reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only
accelerated Cities can make us sick. That’s always been true—diseases spread more easily when
more people are close to one another. And cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for
vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they
are humanity’s greatest invention  indispensable engines for creativity  innovation  wealth 
and civilization itself. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis 
cities grew silent  the normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these
changes? Advances in technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before.
Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive  but individual
cities face terrible risks  argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler  and a wave of urban failure
would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration  nothing can replace what
cities offer. But great cities have always demanded great management  and our current crisis
has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. In America  Glaeser and Cutler
argue  deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of
our cities  solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a
downward spiral to a much darker place.

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