Survival of the City

Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

Survival of the City
Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
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h196 x 128mm - 480pg
1 Sep 2022 UK
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9781529364347
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From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has locked down our urban world. Restaurants are shuttered, subways run almost empty and we cross the street to avoid close contact with strangers. For the moment, low density living looks better and wiser than crowding together in urban apartments and those who are able to have moved out to the space of the country or the suburbs. Will this change become permanent? Will fear of contagion persist for decades and demolish the appeal of urban proximity? Will the COVID-19 pandemic be a hinge in history that marks humanity' s retreat from the cities that have powered our progress for millennia? Or instead, will this become a brief aberration that is no better remembered than the outbreak of plague in Mumbai in 1896? Leading experts, Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, in health and urban economics respectively, examine the history and future of the modern city. They also suggest that global monitoring, pre-emptive vaccine development, stockpiles of safety equipment, and better urban public health systems will radically reduce the chance that pandemic risk will reappear regularly.
Edward Glaeser (Author) Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is also Director for the Cities Research Programme at the International Growth Centre, LSE and Oxford, and is a senior fellow at the Manhatten institute. He is widely credited for having single handled revived the field of urban economics and has published numerous academic books and journal articles in the area as well as on economic growth, law, health and inequality. Since 2006 he has written and blogged for various news media and is the bestselling author of The Triumph of the City (Penguin Press 2004). David Cutler (Author) David Matthew Cutler is the Otto Ekstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in the economics department and in Harvard' s Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as serving as commissioner on the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. He served in the administration of Bill Clinton and was the senior health care advisor to Barack Obama. As well as numerous academic books and articles he published Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America' s Health Care System (OUP 2004).
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ISBN-13: 9781529364347
Published: 1 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Basic Books
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 331g
Pages: 480

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