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In the City: How Harvard economist Ed Glaeser sees the future of cities

The Weekly Take from CBRE

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Survival of the City

I was mostly trying to survive the first six months of lockdown, so that was my primary motive for writing it. I didn't see a world in which face-to-face contact was going to become obsolete. There is really too little upward mobility in our cities. And there really is too much mass incarceration in our city.

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