Building a City of Choices

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Delivering the Yale School of Architecture's annual Eero Saarinen lecture, Edward Glaeser (Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and Director of the 
Taubman Center for State and Local Government) discusses how "cities magnify humanity's strengths" by spurring innovation, facilitating face-to-face interaction, attracting talent, encouraging entrepreneurship, and allowing for social and economic mobility.

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