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Podcast: Life Elsewhere
Episode: Survival of the City. My Sweet Girl. - Show 441
Description: Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation - Edward Glaeser & David Cutler
Cities can make us sick. They always have - diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities no...