Triumph of the City
Subtitle: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780143120544
Copyright date: 2011
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: our urban species; label: Chapter 1
title: What do they make in Bangalore?; title: Ports of intellectual entry : Athens; title: Baghdad’s house of wisdom; title: Learning in Nagasaki; title: How Bangalore became a boom town; title: Education and urban success; title: The rise of Silicon Valley; title: The cities of tomorrow; label: Chapter 2
title: Why do cities decline?; title: How the rust belt rose; title: Detroit before cars; title: Henry Ford and industrial Detroit; title: Why riot?; title: Urban reinvention : New York since 1970; title: The righteous rage of Coleman Young; title: The Curley effect; title: The edifice complex; title: Remaining in the rust belt; title: Shrinking to greatness; label: Chapter 3
title: What’s good about slums?; title: Rio’s favelas; title: Moving on up; title: Richard Wright’s urban exodus; title: Rise and fall of the American ghetto; title: The inner city; title: How policy magnifies poverty; label: Chapter 4
title: How were the tenements tamed?; title: The plight of Kinshasa; title: Healing sick cities; title: Street cleaning and corruption; title: More roads, less traffic?; title: Making cities safer; title: Health benefits; label: Chapter 5
title: Is London a luxury resort?; title: Scale economies and the Globe Theatre; title: The division of labor and lamb vindaloo; title: Shoes and the city; title: London as marriage market; title: When are high wages bad?; label: Chapter 6
title: What’s so great about skyscrapers?; title: Inventing the skyscraper; title: The soaring ambition of A. E. Lefcourt; title: Regulating New York; title: Fear of heights; title: The perils of preservation; title: Rethinking Paris; title: Mismanagement in Mumbai; title: Three simple rules; label: Chapter 7
title: Why has sprawl spread?; title: Sprawl before cars; title: Arthur Levitt and mass-produced housing; title: Rebuilding America around the car; title: Welcome to the woodlands; title: Accounting for tastes : why a million people moved to Houston; title: Why is housing so cheap in the sunbelt?; title: What’s wrong with sprawl?; label: Chapter 8
title: Is there anything greener than blacktop?; title: The dream of garden living; title: Dirty footprints : comparing carbon emissions; title: The unintended consequences of environmentalism; title: Two green visions : the prince and the mayor; title: The biggest battle : greening India and China; title: Seeking smarter environmentalism; label: Chapter 9
title: How do cities succeed?; title: The imperial city : Tokyo; title: The well-managed city : Singapore and Gaborone; title: The smart city : Boston, Minneapolis, and Milan; title: The consumer city : Vancouver; title: The growing city : Chicago and Atlanta; title: Too much of a good thing in Dubai; label: Conclusion
title: flat world, tall city.; title: Give cities a level playing field; title: Urbanization through globalization; title: Lend a hand to human capital; title: Help poor people, not poor places; title: The challenge of urban poverty; title: The rise of the consumer city; title: The curse of NIMBYism; title: The bias toward sprawl; title: Green cities; title: Gifts of the city.