Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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.

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