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The Economic Role of Cities
- These two factors together make it possible, for the first time, to agglomerate economic activity virtually. Could the next big tech region be built on the internet? All it needs is one big push.
from Firehose #168: ๐ Urban flight. ๐ by Alex Taussig
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- One commonality that we find when looking across these clusters is that they are all geographically close by. This by itself shouldn't surprise us. Geoffrey West's fantastic work shows us that cities, for instance, help create exactly this dynamic. In bringing people together it increases the rate of reproduction of ideas, speeding up the emergence... See more
from Eureka! On the clustering of geniuses by Rohit Krishnan
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- My humbler assertion is that 2020 has punctured my confidence that the internet cannot encroach on the benefits of urban density and proximity. Going forward, many fledgling companies may agree, as they find that the city in the cloud essentially acts as a more accessible version of the city on the Earth, eerily reproducing its forces of agglomerat... See more
from Superstar Cities Are in Trouble by Derek Thompson
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