[marktwain]

I disagree with many of the assumptions in the article.

Cities are becoming increasingly irrelevant as information workforces can operate from anywhere. Fast infrastructure means people in rural areas have most of the advantages of cities with few of the disadvantages.

Cities have enormous disadvantages as political structures, because they naturally lend themselves to central control and planning by a political elite.

[Texas Fossil]

Bump!

I don’t want to live in a city.

[adorno]

Cities are becoming increasingly irrelevant as information workforces can operate from anywhere. Fast infrastructure means people in rural areas have most of the advantages of cities with few of the disadvantages.

Cities have enormous disadvantages as political structures, because they naturally lend themselves to central control and planning by a political elite. Exactly right!

I made the same points about 2 -3 months ago. Cities are outdated infrastructures, and were only necessary in the past before the advent of the automobile and planes and TV and radio and the internet. We can do virtually anything remotely that in the past required that people gather together in small or larger communities in order to get things done.

[tbw2]

D. M. Wozniak’s book “The Perihelion” looks at an America that had a divorce between the blue core cities and “red lands”, the conservative suburbs and rural areas.
The cultural divide was so bad that we avoided a civil war by letting the cities set up walls that control who gets in and out, while the country itself has walls to control foreign immigration.
Want into a blue core city? You must have permission and an implant. Want to leave the city? Anytime, but it will then be life by red land rules. The cities then rely on a network of trains, conventional flights and cargo drones to carry stuff and people, mostly flying over “the red lands”.
It was that or else have another civil war. Now the blue cores have abortion any time, marriage is heavily taxed, and so are children. Go to the red lands, guns are legal, abortion illegal, and marriage is the norm.
I think this author is mistaking service centers like hospitals with CULTURAL hubs.