- Cities Do It Better -- Megacities are successful partly because "urban scale and density strengthen markets by bringing together an abundance of buyers and sellers in an information-rich setting";
- Why Humanity Loves, and Needs, Cities -- Because cities "connect people and enable them to learn from one another, [so] an increasingly information-intensive economy will only make urban density more valuable";
- A Tale of Many Cities -- On "the enormous value that human beings place on being near one another";
- The Lorax Was Wrong: Skyscrapers Are Green -- "In almost every metropolitan area, we found the central city residents emitted less carbon than the suburban counterparts";
- What Makes Cities Great -- "America does not prosper because of its “amber waves of grain” but because the nation’s human capital, especially in its “alabaster cities,” thrives in a connected world";
- Slumdog Entrepreneurs -- The "Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai is often described as the largest “slum” in the world. [...] The hygienic conditions are awful, but the area doesn’t feel desperate. It is a hive of economic activity";
- Why Has Globalization Led to Bigger Cities? -- "Globalization and technological change have increased the returns to being smart; human beings are a social species that get smart by hanging around smart people. [...] Knowledge moves more quickly at close quarters, and as a result, cities are often the gateways between continents and civilizations."
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