[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, edward glaeser. i think what we just learned in the last two minutes in addition to learning a lot more about how our cities developed is that no one sleeps in your classes at harvard. [laughter] by the way, he will be signing books in the lobby of the auditorium on our panel we have ayanna pressley. >> good afternoon. how are you. >> we also have transpired. >> hello. >> i want you to take us a little bit further back. in the book you say that boston's rebirth has as much to do with recent politics as what happened in the 16 '30s. can you explain? >> okay, if we think about how boston came back, it is hard not to place them outside wall for the education that the city has always invested in. indeed, we have the examples of the people who brought this into entrepreneurship. the pathway to education did not start with mit. although it is an example of the land-grant politics. mit is a land grant college. but if you think about it turning towards education, it didn't happen in the 19th century, it happ

from the fourth annual boston book festival, a panel entitled the triumph of the city, featuring edward glaeser. it's about an hour, 15. >> good afternoon and thank you very much for coming to this auditorium today. let me introduce myself, i'm bob oakes from morning edition on wb, ur, boston's npr news station. [applause] thank you. thank you. i'm sure some of you are saying, wow, that's bob oakes? this. [laughter] i thought he was taller, i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair, and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. don't they do a nice job? isn't this a atlantic event? -- a terrific event? [applause] let's also thank the plymouth rock foundation for sponsoring this particular session and say that without their generosity, it would be hard to put on events like this that add to the cultural life that we all enjoy in this great city, so thanks to them. [applause] and in a way that's what we're here to talk about this afternoon,