Economy
Density vs. Livability in the World's Biggest Cities
The two don't necessarily go together, according to a new report.
Density is an issue that's generated heated debate among urbanists — much of it covered here on Cities.
On the one hand, a growing number of economists extol the benefits of greater high-rise construction as a panacea for everything from innovation and job creation to affordable housing. Writing in the pages of The Atlantic in 2011, Harvard's Edward Glaeser points out that "tall buildings enable the human interactions that are at the heart of economic innovation, and of progress itself."