A City Is a Machine for Social Interaction | Geoffrey West
What is The Future for Cities? · Oct 4, 2026 · 2:15
What is The Future for Cities?
What is The Future for Cities? · Oct 4, 2026 · 2:15
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Geoffrey West on urban populations growing faster than exponential, and the strange present in which some cities cannot build housing fast enough while others are already contracting.
He calls the far side of that growth a singularity: depopulation, contraction, and possibly collapse. The short-term future of cities is both problems at once.
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