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Olivier Walther, « Expanding economic life: the potentialities and future of cities », Journal of Urban Research, ID : 10.4000/articulo.1793
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“Economic life, said urban theorist Jacobs (1984: 32), develops by grace of innovating; it expands by grace of import-replacing. These two master economic processes are closely related, both being functions of city economies”. Triumph of the City, the latest book by Edward Glaeser, an economist from Harvard University, is both a tribute to and a critical appraisal of Jacobs’ work on the potentialities and future of urban life. Building on Jacob’s (1969) ideas of endogenous city growth, he arg...