Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation - David Cutler and Edward Glaeser

September 2021, Book: "One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.  Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven."  Learn More via the Penguin / Random House

HKS Authors - David Cutler and Edward Glaeser