I don’t know if Edward Glaeser, whose father was born in Berlin, had Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 propaganda film in mind when he titled his book Triumph of the City, but his stirring subtitle, “How Our ...

Cities get a bad rap even though two-thirds of all Americans live in them. They're often depicted as dirty, dangerous, polluted and unhealthy. The American ideal is usually seen as more Mayberry than ...

Dense cities are a lot more energy efficient than decentralized sprawl, argues Harvard professor and urban advocate Edward Glaeser. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...

Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser argues that the country needs policies that create a "level playing field" between our deprived cities and the outlying suburban and rural areas. By signing up, you ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Kate Ascher SURVIVAL OF THE CITY Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and ...

To those Republicans, to those Tea Party activists who believe in the home mortgage interest deduction: Shouldn’t the U.S. government stop engaging in social engineering? Shouldn’t the U.S. government ...

Edward Glaeser, the Harvard economist who is an expert on what makes some cities thrive while others flounder, has a good piece in the Boston Globe about food trucks and how they should be regulated.