Glaeser, Edward (2011): Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier Authors Eberhard von Einem FB Wirtschaftswissenschaften 1, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Treskowallee 8, 10318, Berlin, Deutschland CMS Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 16–18, 10623, Berlin, Deutschland DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13147-013-0217-z Keywords: Book Review Downloads Download data is not yet available. References Florida, R. (2002): The rise of the creative class and how it’s transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. New York. Friedman, T. (2005): The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century. New York. Glaeser, E. (2005): Review of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class. In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 35, 5, 593–596. Jacobs, J. (1961): The death and life of great American cities. New York. Downloads PDF (German) Published 2013-04-30 Issue Vol. 71 No. 2 (2013) Section Book Review License Copyright (c) 2013 RuR Editors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Einem E von. Glaeser, Edward (2011): Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier. RuR [Internet]. 2013 Apr. 30 [cited 2026 Apr. 17];71(2):173–175. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/741 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Share
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