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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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Chinatown: A Great Movie About Infrastructure

There's a scarcity of water here in Phoenix and maybe it's not nearly as bad. I don't think very much because there is this desalination technology, which is quite affordable for ordinary Americans. And fundamentally, Phoenix just needs to figure out how to get enough salt water to turn the salt water into potable water. The place that I worry about water is in the developing world where you have genuinely poor people where desalination is not an option.

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