Lawrence Summers on the Challenges Facing the American Economy CitiesX 2019-01-04 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser sits down with Professor and former director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers to discuss the challenges facing the American economy and, specifically, the challenges facing industrial heartland cities.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Lawrence Summers on 21st Century Solutions CitiesX 2019-01-04 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser sits down with Professor and former director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers to discuss potential solutions for the myriad of challenges facing the American economy in the 21st century.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The MBTA CitiesX 2018-02-28 | MBTA Interim General Manager Steve Poftak discusses the present and future of Boston’s transit system.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Technology and the City CitiesX 2018-02-19 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser discusses the ways in which technology has shaped the city -- and what ways in which cities enable new technology.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The 1811 Grid CitiesX 2018-02-09 | NYU Professor Hilary Ballon explains the principles of New York’s city plan of 1811.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Density Within the City CitiesX 2018-02-07 | Professor Glaeser considers some reasons why built density varies even within parts of the same city, as well as some different possible patterns for where the rich and the poor live.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Supply of Urban Space CitiesX 2018-02-07 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser explains how Metropolis’ supply of housing is determined by the costs of construction.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
A Short History of Urban Riots CitiesX 2018-02-05 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser outlines the history of urban riots as well as empirical research that attempts to explain their causes.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Bike Shares CitiesX 2018-02-05 | Hear from Jay Walder, CEO of Motivate (a bike share company), about how the rise of biking is changing transportation in cities.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Rezoning 21st Century New York CitiesX 2018-02-05 | In this interview with Dan Doctoroff, learn about the accomplishments of the Bloomberg area and how New York’s Olympic bid brought Doctoroff into NYC politics.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Breakdown of Urban Order in New York CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Journalist and author Ken Auletta shares with Professor Glaeser his recollections of John Lindsay’s mayorship and the dangerous times in New York in the 1970s.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Unpacking the Demand for Housing CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser introduces the concept of agglomeration, the finding that larger cities increase productivity by facilitating the movement of goods and ideas.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Agglomeration Economies & Supply and Demand CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Professor Ed Glaeser extends the discussion of agglomeration effects by analyzing how these effects change our initial supply and demand analysis.
Urbanization and Openness CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser extends the spatial equilibrium model to consider how population is allocated between urban and rural locations in developing economies.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Child Daycare Centers CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Mario Luis Small talks about his research on how child care centers serve to increase social mobility not only for children but for their parents.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Rent Control CitiesX 2018-02-01 | NYU Professor Ingrid Ellen talks with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser about how rent control and rent stabilization work in New York City, and outlines the controversies over the effects of these policies.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Urban Health CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser explains how developed world cities got healthy -- and why it is so crucially important to help developing world cities get healthier.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Transportation in the City CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser gives an overview of urban mobility systems and why congestion threatens the very reason cities are so important.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Terrorism and Strength in Manchester CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Sir Howard Bernstein’s reflects on the resilience of Manchester in the wake of the tragic arena attack in May 2017.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Imperial City Model CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser explains how different patterns of urban growth might emerge when determined by politics rather than markets, starting with an explanation of why more authoritarian governments tend to build larger capital cities.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Demand for Cities CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser explains how the demand to live in a city is determined both by the wages that can be earned there and the other amenities that the city provides.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Congruence of Supply and Demand CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser brings together the analysis of supply and demand curves to examine how both quantity and price will react to city wage and amenity shifts.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Race and Tipping Models CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Why do patterns of racial segregation persist in many American cities? In this lecture, Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser analyzes how preferences about the identity of one’s neighbors can result in a wide variety of different outcomes.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Within-City Equilibrium Model CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser explains the Alonso-Muth-Mills model, an application of the spatial equilibrium principle to understand how housing costs should vary within the same city.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Economics of Crime and Riots CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser shows that even shifts in the crime level can be explained by the logic of supply and demand.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Central Park CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser takes us through the architectural and political history of Central Park.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Boston Marathon Bombing CitiesX 2018-02-01 | Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis reflects on the challenges of balancing civil liberties with effective policing in an era of new terrorist threats.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Rise of Crime in Rio CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser speaks with Joana Monteiro, Joao Mello, and Pinheiro Neto about the increase in violent crime in Brazil in the 1980s and its causes.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Police Response to Crime in Rio CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Brazilian experts on crime Joana Monteiro, Joao Mello, and Pinheiro Neto speak with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser about the innovative policing strategies that Brazil used to reduce violence connected to the drug trade.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
At Home in the City CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser gives an overview of perhaps the biggest problem facing cities in the 21st century: sky high housing prices.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Safe City CitiesX 2018-01-31 | In this video, Professor Ed Glaeser gives an overview of the interplay between urban crime, police, riots, and jails.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Hong Kong MTR CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Jay Walder, former CEO of the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR), talks about the management and unique operating conditions of that organizations.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
CompStat in New York, Boston and Chicago CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis discusses the promise and pitfalls of using crime statistics to guide policing.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Professor Benjamin Carp speaks with Professor Ed Glaeser about the the urban roots of the American Revolution.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Congestion Pricing in London CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Jay Walder, the former Managing Director of Finance and Planning at Transport for London, explores the implementation of congestion pricing in London.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Arab Spring CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Harvard Professor Tarek Masoud speaks with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser about the remarkable events of the Arab Spring and the urban spaces in which they took shape.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Community Policing CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis explains the ideas behind community policing, and Boston’s approach to it.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Bubbling of Rebellion CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Professor Benjamin Carp explains how the uprising that led to the American Revolution was an essentially urban phenomenon.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Somerville and The Happiness Survey CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Learn from Somerville’s Mayor Joe Curtatone about how the city tracks and measures the happiness of its residents.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Public Transportation in Manchester CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Howard Bernstein and Diane Coyle speak with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser about the challenges of regulating and managing bus and light rail service in Manchester.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Somerville and the Green Line CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Hear from Somerville, Massachusetts Mayor Joe Curtatone about the battles to extend the T -- the Boston-area train system -- into Somerville. For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Arc of New York CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Journalist and author Ken Auletta speaks with Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser as they follow New York City through its rebirth, from the 1980s through the present.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Sao Paulo and Rios Differences CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Journalist Marcelo Tas explains to Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser the differences between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and challenges facing both.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Dynamics and Durable Housing CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Professor Ed Glaeser discusses why it may be more difficult for cities to shrink than to grow in response to changes in demand.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Agglomeration Economies and Urban Instability CitiesX 2018-01-31 | Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser shows how in some situations, the combination of agglomeration effects and externalities can create a situation where multiple equilibria are possible for the same city.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Congestion Externalities and City Size CitiesX 2018-01-30 | Agglomeration economies are a benefit of city size, but what are the downsides? In this lecture, Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser introduces the concept of congestion externalities.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Welfare Consequences of City Bigness CitiesX 2018-01-30 | Professor Ed Glaeser introduces the concept of the Pigouvian tax and explores the tricky question of whether the externalities of city size are positive or negative.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Spatial Equilibrium Concept CitiesX 2018-01-30 | Learn from Professor Ed Glaeser about the powerful concept of spatial equilibrium: the idea that housing prices reflect both the wages and amenities associated with living in a big city.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
The Rise of Suburbs CitiesX 2018-01-29 | Harvard Professor Liz Cohen describes the “mass suburbanization” of the 1950s United States.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Villa Victoria CitiesX 2018-01-29 | Learn from Harvard Professor Mario Luis Small about the fight to save the Villa Victoria neighborhood in Boston’s South End, and the unusual self-governance model that was developed as a result.For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
