Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

by Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, et al.

Book Overview

One 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. They always have--diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593297687
• ISBN13: 9780593297681
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"