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8 Sept 2021 Conversations with Tyler David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities
“I think there are many excellent individual buildings. Bilbao Guggenheim. There’s a long list, but neighborhoods is where we’re falling short, not individual buildings.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 8 Sept 2021
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…My father was an architectural historian, Tyler. He was a curator of the Museum of Modern Art. So, I have a certain feeling that we as economists are not necessarily the best judges of the beautiful. What’s your view of the Centre Pompidou? Do you think beautiful or not beautiful? What’s your view on Renzo Piano? I think there are many excellent individual buildings. Bilbao Guggenheim. There’s a long list, but neighborhoods is where we’re falling short, not individual buildings. Renzo Piano — amazing. [Peter] Zumthor — go all the way down the list. But neighborhoods — I don’t see them. How about Barcelona, the parts of Barcelona that were built after the Olympics? That’s a perfectly walkable neighborhood and not a terribly unpleasant place.…
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