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Cities: living and working in global business centers

Published on October 7, 2021   17 min

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Interviewer: Today I am meeting with Professor Edward Glaeser. Professor Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and author of the best-selling book, "Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Intervention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier." Prof. Glaeser, I believe the role of cities as centers of idea transmission is of particular interest to you. Is that correct? Prof. Glaeser: Indeed it is. Interviewer: That's a great introduction to the fact that I want to hear your views on the implications for how business is practiced in cities, as the development of online communication resources and services and robot delivery systems develop. It seems to me that we have two forces that to some extent can act against each other in their implications. What can we expect to happen? And with what consequences for business? Professor Glaeser: The question of what changes in information technology will do for the future of cities and to businesses that operate in those cities, has been around for 40 years. Alvin Toffler, in "The Third Wave", wrote about how he envisioned a world in which telecommuting connecting in from electronic cottages would enable us to disperse, to stop connecting with each other in person, and would lead to an even larger wave of
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