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Survival of the city

Survival of the city: Laurie Taylor considers how cities manage to thrive and re-invent themselves in the face of wide-ranging threats.

Survival of the City: Laurie Taylor talks to Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of a study examining the future of urban life at a time when the pandemic has exposed failures of governance. Whilst cities have been engines for creativity and wealth, they have also, of late, exposed deep inequities in health care and education and advances in technology mean many can opt out of city life as never before. So are we moving to a post urban world? Or will the city continue to thrive and re-invent itself?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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28 minutes

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Mon 12 Sep 2022 00:15

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Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation聽by聽Edward Glaeser and David Cutler (Penguin Press)

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  • Wed 7 Sep 2022 16:00
  • Mon 12 Sep 2022 00:15

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