The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations
The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1788215583 | 160 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1788215583 | 160 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Cities are seen as essentially “good”: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnreiter argues that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations – agglomeration economies, network externalities and a massive built environment – also provides fertile ground for the development of the “bad” ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth from other localities and regions.