Triumph of the City

Triumph of the City: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier
Speaker: Professor Edward Glaeser
Chair: Professor Henry Overman
This event was recorded on 14 March 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Building and maintaining cities is difficult and density has costs, but in this presentation Professor Edward Glaeser will argue that these costs are worth bearing, because whether in London's ornate arcades or Rio's fractious favelas, whether in the high rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workplaces of Dharavi, our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom are all ultimately gifts of people living, working, and thinking together -- the ultimate triumph of the city.

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[lsewebsite]

@sacredsoma

Glad you like the videos. Yes we are looking at ways in which we might provide the slides either as a separate 'slide-audio' video or combined with the video of the speaker.

[ToxicAce]

Sir, apparently you've been to Vancouver. Also, there is no God.

[ToxicAce]

What's wrong with mixed-race?

[crorillabe]

nice speech. thanks

[CivilizedMan444]

@ToxicAce

… What is wrong with cancer? or disease, parasites, pollution, sin, perversion, degeneracy, slums, or evil?

… If you viewed "The Great Pyramid, Why Was It Built - Lesson 1c”, you would have noted that race mixing is an unnatural violation of the Second Law of God, a sin that occurs only in demonic, cult-infested urban slums ruled by criminally insane landlords with no concept of either Right and Wrong.

… If you don’t know, you are probably suited to subsist in urban hellholes.

[CivilizedMan444]

… An Urb is Not a City.

… An Urb is a primitive, sprawling, fragmented, uncivilized, fragile, temporary, flammable, haphazardly developed, mixed-race, crime-ridden, alien-infested, policed, hellish, overpopulated, partially employed, debt-ridden, landlord-bankster governed slave-labor concentration camp.

… A City is a beautiful, designed, durable, vertical, compact, civilized, self-sufficient, population limited, whole organic civic entity. See "The Great Pyramid, why was it built”.

[sacredsoma]

Thank you so much for these lectures, is it possible to have these filmed in such a way that the slide projections would be in the frame