His upcoming book “The Survival of the City,” co-written with applied economics professor David M. Now, 10 years later, Glaeser writes about the challenges cities face in an age of isolation. In his 2011 book “Triumph of the City,” Glaeser, an urban economist, tried to highlight part of that promise: the natural power of cities to foster face-to-face interactions and, with them, innovation. “But the city was always full of life and always full of some form of promise.” Those were often tough years for New York,” Glaeser says. “It was hard not to be fascinated with the city and its changing ways. The economy was stagnant, unemployment rates were high and crime was rampant by the end of the decade, over 1 million residents had fled the city. Glaeser was growing up in the late 1970s, his hometown of New York City was in crisis.
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