首页
登录
职称英语
What is Glaeser’s opinion towards cities? [br] [originaltext]Faiza: Big cities
What is Glaeser’s opinion towards cities? [br] [originaltext]Faiza: Big cities
游客
2023-10-18
84
管理
问题
What is Glaeser’s opinion towards cities? [br]
Faiza: Big cities are vibrant hubs for culture and industry, or dirty, congested, crime-ridden warrens. As the world population surpasses seven billion, economists, environmentalists and social scientists are rethinking the role of the city in global society. Economist Edward Glae-ser believes cities are the best places to live.
Glaeser: Cities are so fascinating because they play to mankind’s greatest gift, which is our ability to learn from other people.
Faiza: Since ancient times, he says, cities have attracted smart people and enabled them to work collaboratively to advance society. But it wasn’t always a smooth road.
Glaeser: In the 1970s, it looked as if globalization, new technologies and the death of distance was making our older cities obsolete. After all, the garment industry was fleeing New York. It looked like history itself was telling New York City to drop dead.
Faiza: Over the past three decades many cities have been revitalized, not just despite globalization and new technologies, but, as Glaeser explains, because of them.
Glaeser: What these new forces have done is they’ve increased the returns to new ideas, to being smart. Because, now if you got a new idea, you can manufacture it on the other side of the planet. You can take advantage of some new market opportunity in India or Indonesia or Sub-Saharan Africa. These trends have also made cities more important because cities are at their heart today, engines of innovations, forgers of human capital.
Faiza: In a new book, " Triumph of the City, " Glaeser takes readers on a world tour of urban success stories from Boston and London, to Bangalore and Kinshasa. He explains how cities are places of pleasure and production. Restaurants, supermarkets, theaters and museums create job opportunities and vibrant economies.
Glaeser: If you look across the world, the countries where more than half of the people live in urban areas are more than four times richer, on average, than the countries where less than half of the people live in urban areas.
选项
A、Less happier.
B、Much richer.
C、More relaxed.
D、Very depressed.
答案
B
解析
录音最后Glaeser提到一半以上人口生活在城市地区的国家要比不到一半人口生活在城市地区的国家富有4倍多,由此可以答案选B项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3107410.html
相关试题推荐
Studytheinformationinthetablecomparingtwocities,whichbothhavegoodun
Forthispart,youneedtowriteanessayexpressingyouropiniononwhetheraw
Wheredidthethiefstealthecarsfrom?[br][originaltext]W:...andnowtolo
Wheredidthethiefstealthecarsfrom?[br][originaltext]W:...andnowtolo
Wheredidthethiefstealthecarsfrom?[originaltext]W:...andnowtolocalne
Whataretheytalkingabout?[br][originaltext]W:Hi,Tony.How’sthenewjob
Whataretheytalkingabout?[originaltext]W:Hi,Tony.How’sthenewjobatthe
WhydoesRuthcallJackie?[br][originaltext]W:Hi,Jackie!We’regoingtoaf
Howwillthepricebedetermined?[br][originaltext]M:HowshouldIpricethes
Howwillthepricebedetermined?[br][originaltext]M:HowshouldIpricethes
随机试题
Thispassageismainlyabout______.[br]Electronicanimalsareverypopularin
关于广义的运输市场,正确的表述是()。A.运输活动交易场所的基础设施 B.运
患者女,62岁。因上腹突发剧痛8小时急诊入院,患者有多年胃病史,经服药后好转。患
37.工作许可人的安全责任之一:工作现场布置的是否完善,必
建立控制指标体系的工作是旅游景区控制性详细规划编制的核心内容之一。其指标体系包括
各种运输方式内外部的各个方面的构成和联系,就是( )。 A.运输系统
为了担保丙对丁的1000万借款债务,甲以其对乙享有的1200万元买卖合同价款债权
以下哪项不是乳牙龋病的临床特点A.患龋率高,发病早 B.龋齿进展速度快 C.
黄河公司系一家多元化经营的上市公司,与收入有关的部分经济业务如下: 根据下列
下列关于预制钢筋混凝土楼板构造,说法正确的有()。A.预制实心平板跨度较小,可
最新回复
(
0
)