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The city becomes a backdrop to the omniscient screen, falling into the space of flows. Geographical differences give way to digital similarities, which can sometimes be very inconvenient when too many people are following the same algorithmic pathways.

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

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In this sense, the ages of globalization both explain and are explained by the rising scale of global interactions. Each boost in global scale has given rise to new technologies that have expanded populations and production. Each boost of scale, in turn, has changed the nature of governance and geopolitics. We are now reckoning, however, with a phe

The question arises as to why all cities do not replace their imports from time to time. Why do some, like Scranton, do so significantly only once while others, like London, do so again and again? The answer is that if a city stops generating new exports after an episode of import replacing, it will not earn many more imports to replace. It will no

Futures are multiple, contested and complex. In

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