Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser

According to Edward Glaeser, the main factor of city's success is ...

• investment in infrastructures

• marketing strategy

• people and human capital

• financial and business services

What makes cities dynamic spaces which attract both the poor and the wealthy?

• closeness of urban life, face-to-face interactions

• spreading of creativity

• ability to produce new thinking and innovations

• all answers are correct

Cities DON'T attract talent by ...

• political power + well thought entrepreneurs’ strategy

• economic freedom and the rule of law

• special tax policies for talented people

• good quality of life + education

There is a near-perfect correlation between urbanization and prosperity across nations

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• TRUE

Find WRONG answer: good education guarantees

• increasing the birth rate

• growth of productivity

• people’s active participation in public life

• urban growth and success

"The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure of government to realize that ..."

• policy should be more focused on investing in physical infrastructure

• people, not structures, really determine a city’s success

Why cities decline?

• inability to reinvent themselves

• natural processes of migration

• disadvantageous position

• helping poor people instead of poor places

“Rust Belt” ("Manufacturing Belt") cities can bring back success thanks to:

• construction projects

• high-tech transport systems

• complete change of the old industrial model

• office towers

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