Jon Gertner profiles Ed Glaeser

Excellent article, the focus is urban economics.  Best sentence: "…he notes that cars per capita in 1990 is among the best indicators of how well a city has fared over the past 15 years."

From the same NYT magazine issue, here is Levitt and Dubner on the poverty and decline of real estate agents.  See also Alex’s previous post, Real Estate Rent-Seeking.