19th Century Housing RegulationsCitiesX2024-10-22 | 19th Century Housing RegulationsLawrence Summers on the Challenges Facing the American EconomyCitiesX2019-01-04 | 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-urban101xLawrence Summers on 21st Century SolutionsCitiesX2019-01-04 | 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-urban101xDensity Within the CityCitiesX2018-02-07 | 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-urban101xRezoning 21st Century New YorkCitiesX2018-02-05 | 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-urban101xThe Breakdown of Urban Order in New YorkCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xUnpacking the Demand for HousingCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xAgglomeration Economies & Supply and DemandCitiesX2018-02-01 | Professor Ed Glaeser extends the discussion of agglomeration effects by analyzing how these effects change our initial supply and demand analysis.Urbanization and OpennessCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xChild Daycare CentersCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xRent ControlCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xUrban HealthCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xTransportation in the CityCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xThe Imperial City ModelCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xThe Demand for CitiesCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xThe Congruence of Supply and DemandCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xRace and Tipping ModelsCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xThe Within-City Equilibrium ModelCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xThe Boston Marathon BombingCitiesX2018-02-01 | 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-urban101xRise of Crime in RioCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xPolice Response to Crime in RioCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xCongestion Pricing in LondonCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xThe Arab SpringCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xPublic Transportation in ManchesterCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xSomerville and the Green LineCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xThe Arc of New YorkCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xSao Paulo and Rios DifferencesCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xAgglomeration Economies and Urban InstabilityCitiesX2018-01-31 | 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-urban101xCongestion Externalities and City SizeCitiesX2018-01-30 | 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-urban101xThe Welfare Consequences of City BignessCitiesX2018-01-30 | 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-urban101xThe Spatial Equilibrium ConceptCitiesX2018-01-30 | 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-urban101xVilla VictoriaCitiesX2018-01-29 | 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.