{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The perfect city?","description":"What does a perfect city look like in a low- or middle-income country – and how do you get there?\n\nIn the closing episode of our cities series, Ed Glaeser joins Kurtis Lockhart and Oliver Hanney for a wide-ranging conversation on what makes cities work. He sets out the three foundations every city needs (safety, mobility, education), why infrastructure without the right incentives and institutions fails, what 19th-century New York's cholera outbreaks teach Lusaka about water, why “bus good, train bad” still holds, and what the medieval European city has to offer sub-Saharan Africa's fastest-growing urban regions.\n\nWe also discuss the political art of being a great mayor, why \"capacity eats policy as a light afternoon snack,\" and his three priorities for African cities over the next decade.\n\nRead the show notes on our Substack: https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/\n\nCheck out the Africa Urban Lab: https://www.aul.city/","author_name":"Ideas in Development","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5165629-ideas-in-development","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43641492/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}