March 2024
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.
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Cities emerged to solve a set of problems that no longer exist. Physical goods are already made and traded elsewhere. Information and intellectual property can now be produced and exchanged online.
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The American Dream is Going Digital
The American Dream is Going Digital: The Land of Opportunity is the Internet This tweet went viral. As one might expect, the responses ranged from despair over a lost generation of youth, to proclamations that China would inevitably overtake the West as the leading superpower. Some ascribed ...
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“The ultimate question that I have: how can we create cities that are big enough to give people economic opportunity, but small enough to give people love and others in their lives that touch their hearts?”