CITY DWELLERS 城客

The renowned Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser visits us to discuss his eagerly awaited new book, "Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier." It's a book that faces up to the bad rap America's cities get: they're dirty, poor, crime-ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Glaeser shatters these myths and demonstrates that cities are actually the healthier, greenest and richest -- in cultural and economic terms -- places to live.

談起城市，除了繁華興旺的一面，有時我們還會聯想到髒兮兮的街角、罪行頻生的巷弄和飛漲的物價。於是近年來，好些人都傾向選擇居於近郊，空氣清新一點，環境也比較優美。哈佛大學經濟學家Edward Glaeser則持相反意見，在其新書《Triumph of the City》中，破除這些久遠的迷思，並講解為何城市才是文化或經濟層面上的最佳居所。對我來說，他的論點是否真確倒不重要，畢竟居於香港，我們的選擇根本不多啊。