Today, activities and jobs increasingly concentrate in the densest urban areas. Skilled workers gather in these areas in order to join the most dynamic and innovative companies whose growth and innovation efforts are fueled by the fact that they’re close to each other. For less skilled workers, these areas of increased economic activity become magn

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Within cities, medieval land uses will also make a comeback: more offices and workshops will be located within homes. More commercial activities will be in pop-up fairs rather than evergreen locations. And all this will happen in the context of other Medieval fixtures: plagues, fragmentation of trade and supply chains, bigotry, lower economic mobil... See more

Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.