The Urban Imperative Towards Competitive Cities

by Glaeser, Edward; Joshi Ghani, Abha

• ISBN13: 9780199457779
• ISBN10: 0199457778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at the Harvard University.

Abha Joshi-Ghani is the Director for Knowledge Exchange and Learning at the World Bank.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, Boxes, and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Rethinking Cities
Edward Glaeser and Abha Joshi-Ghani
1 Urbanization as Opportunity - Brandon Fuller and Paul Romer
2 The Shifting Urban Economic Landscape: What Does It Mean for Cities? - Richard Dobbs and Jaana Remes
3 Urbanization and the Geography of Development - J. Vernon Henderson
4 Analyzing Urban Systems: Have Megacities Become Too Large? - Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
5 Are Cities the New Growth Escalator? - Enrico Moretti
6 Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Cities - Joshua Lerner
7 Urbanization and (In)Formalization - Ejaz Ghani and Ravi Kanbur
8 Bridging Divides: Enabling Urban Capabilities - Saskia Sassen
9 Th e Great Migration: Urban Aspirations - Michael Keith
10 Infrastructure: Doing More with Less - Jonathan Woetzel and Herbert Pohl
11 Urban Transport: Can Public-Private Partnerships Work? - Eduardo Engel and Alexander Galetovic512
12 Sustainable and Smart Cities - Matthew E. Kahn
13 Housing Matters - Sonia Hammam
14 Converting Land into Aff ordable Housing Floor Space - Alain Bertaud
15 Housing and Urbanization in Africa: Unleashing a Formal Market Process - Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables
Index
About the Editors and Contributors