CitiesX: an exploration of the past, present, and future of humanity’s greatest invention: the city. The material in this course is a combination of Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser’s direct-to-camera lectures and interviews with experts on a variety of topics, ranging from ancient Mesopotamian cities to the challenges of fighting crime sewer systems in modern day Brazil — and everything in-between.
Fundamental Readings
Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
The Streets Were Paved With Gold by Ken Auletta
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Cities in Civilization by Peter Hall
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
The Urban Transportation Problem by John R. Meyer, John F. Kain, and Martin Wohl
How does a city economy grow + prosper? Why does a rainforest thrive, why is a desert barren of life? The Nature of Economies, #JaneJacobspic.twitter.com/zbYohiJmeH
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Have reread in new light after this chat today. Actually is quite a dim view. The warnings in Dark Age are also in even her earliest work. pic.twitter.com/6NBNoTBDkc
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) June 9, 2017
For Jacobs all along the vibrancy, diversity & democracy of the local was the only antidote to the deadening forces of centralization. https://t.co/NZFGDAOPvm
