Re: Before Bandwidth / After
By: Dennisk to Andeddu on Tue Sep 22 2020 10:09 pm

They are not a desirable feature. That they may happen, they may, but it will be at a net cost. There is not a direct correlation between the significance of a city and its size. We have more people living in Dhaka than in Ancient Greece. Which one was more significant?

I think as cities get larger, the cultural and intellectual output per capita decreases. Demographics matters here, but I think if we have smaller, more numerous cities, we would have more cultural and intellectual output.

I think you're speaking for an ideological perspective. I agree with what you're saying however culture and intellectualism aren't particularly high on the world agenda at the moment.

I don't know what the plans are for a hyper effiecient, clean and green city filled with cycle and pedestrian lanes, small electric cars and the like, but I feel that's the direction we are going. A number of densely populated megacities are going to crop up in the near future and I believe they are going to be the primary destination for most of the world's populace.

Neom is considered our first real glimpse into mankind's "new future". Although it may operate within Saudi Arabia, it's a soverign economic area with its own governmental framework and judicial system. I have heard that this will be the model for the future and we are likely to see independent economic areas crop up within nations in the coming decades.

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