BY CHARLES SOMERS

Urbanization

Clough articleWith the development

of the information age, New York has lost it’s title as economic capital of America.

AOL’s decision to buy Time Warner Entertainment has the potential to shift power from the west coast back to New York.

Kotkin articles

Over the past 25 years, per capita income, based on purchasing power parity, grew by over 400% in India and a remarkable 1,500% in China.

Brown-gridded livesBillings Montana and

kazakhstan the same place?

The concept of land ownership and management determined shape of both

As much as each other despise the other they are alike

Nugent-the great translantic migrations

Between 1870 and 1914 U.S. takes 23 million immigrants

Most of witch were prospectors of land

Some to earn a wageMost through Ellis

island open between 1892 and 1943

Rybczynski-The city in the land of the dollar

Other countries such as France has beautiful cities

America not traditional in cities

No wonderful squares or centers

Some have tried but failed like Chicago to many people wanting the all mighty dollar

The Urban Legend by KotkinThe human world is

fast becoming an urban worl

denser is betterNot all Global Cities

are created equalEven legitimate

cultural meccas aren't insulated from economic turmoil

Urban Legend contthe size of a city

roughly correlated with its wealth

It turns out that the rise of the megacity is by no means inevitable

a network of smaller cities in the Netherlands has helped create a smartly distributed national economy

Beyond city limitscities rather than states

are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built.

Neither 19th-century balance-of-power politics nor 20th-century power blocs are useful in understanding this new world.