James Canton in a prescient article in Significance argues that cities will diversify as they get larger. Like Dobbs & Remes in their McKinsey report, he argues there is effectively no limit on their growth. At least not in terms of concrete & steel, more likely in governance. These relate to my own piece on what happens as we head toward the singularity.
- "Thus, in fact, appear the methods of a Science of Cities ....." Patrick Geddes (1915) Cities in Evolution
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