Edward Glaeser

Our cities’ gleaming spires point to the greatness that mankind can achieve, but also to our hubris.... Urban innovation can destroy value as well as create it.

On a planet with vast amounts of space, we choose cities.

Cities are the absence of physical space between people…They are proximity, density, closeness.

Cities aren’t full of poor people because cities make people poor, but because cities attract poor people with the prospect of improving their lot in life. [Thereofre] we should worry more about place...