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It is the very local, small scale of each individual trip that made this an exactly right effort for the peers to undertake, rather than the Inc.
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
Byrne is pointing to a change in the American landscape where postindustrial work can be done anywhere, and so places like Virgil must invent completely new reasons for people to stay. As you may have already guessed, small towns will turn to services, mass consumption, and cultural amenities as a new source of both tax revenue and a reason for exi
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
This can be distinguished from the A-series, which involves the relationships of ‘past-to-present-to-future’.
John Urry • What is the Future?
It is outside the home, in socioeconomic settings and through the experience and use of built spaces, that urban life becomes transformative.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
a positive difference between incomes and transportation costs is necessary for cities to exist
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Jacobs sees the essence of economic expansion as a process of successive differentiations and generalizations,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
which on average increases with population size