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The Economic Role of Cities
Economic crises and uneven development, despite what CNBC or Econ 101 says, are an absolute necessity for the capitalist mode of production.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Existing divisions of labor multiply into more divisions of labor by grace of intervening added activities that yield up new sums of work to be divided. To me, the D + A nD formula seems a handy way of expressing the process,
Jane Jacobs • The Economy of Cities
The shift to online education, remote work, gaming, live conferencing, and leisure is a new form of agglomeration. A leading indicator, consumers have contributed to the first period of inflation for electronic products in over a decade. Over quarantine, these purchases provided gateways to work, socializing, and play. But if these behaviors become... See more
PM • Memo: On J-Curves and Agglomeration
What’s really happening within each city is a massive exchange of information across social and economic networks of people and organizations, all taking place on a complex infrastructural landscape of buildings, roads, pipes, and wires. For the most part there is no maestro; the properties of cities emerge from countless interactions of millions o
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