Prologue 002
Lawrence H Summers
Introduction 003
Gordon L Clark and Richard Florida
Valuing the city 004
Gordon L Clark
Real estate’s role in urban development: Patrice Derrington’s Built Up 008
Richard Florida
A political economy of real estate development 011
Manuel B Aalbers
Financial geography and moral philosophy of real estate 015
Dariusz Wójcik
Built Up: Examining the origins and pathways of urban development 019
Janelle Knox-Hayes
Development, cities, and the public health 022
Sam Chandan
Real estate speculations 024
Rachel Weber
Why not internalize externalities? 028
Richard K Green
Fixing the finance industry: Inter-generational risk and return modeling 031
Ashby HB Monk
Public spaces and developer incentives 034
Jerry Nickelsburg
Concluding remarks 037
Patrice Derrington