Urban America: US cities in the global economy

In the 21 st century, cities will be where the action is, where business is done, where ideas and innovations spring up, where arts and sciences proliferate. For better or worse, our future is urban. But how exactly our urban future will take shape remains an open question. Clearly not all cities will grow equally. Which cities will grow and which will shrink, and why?

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Will urban patterns in the United States resemble those in Europe or, for that matter, in Asia and Africa? Will most cities remain as they have been in the past, centers of a limited geographic area, dependent on their physical environment?

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Or will globalization create a new class of cities, a sort of global Hanseatic League, increasingly divorced from their hinterlands, which may wither without them? What may be evolving is a new urban-rural divide between wealthy cities enrolled in this new global hierarchy, and the impoverished rest, mired in the lowlands of a supposedly flat world.

If cities aspire to this new global eminence, they will need the services and amenities to provide for global citizens who, increasingly, can live anywhere. This may be the biggest question of all. But globalization affects each of these places in different ways, and will assign each of them different roles—just as the old industrial era in the United States assigned different roles for Boston, Pittsburgh and Omaha, which developed in the same era but evolved very differently.

Chongqing—booming, thrusting, raw, ambitious—calls itself the Chicago of China.

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As one urban size does not fit all, any attempt to squeeze New York and Nairobi into one grand theory is flawed from the start. Let us focus then on the futures of American cities, a more modest task made easier by the fact that those futures are already happening. Almost all American cities, like cities throughout history, came into being to serve some economic purpose. Invariably, that purpose was place-bound.

Auto plants grew up near steel mills. Stockyards depended on fields of grain to feed their livestock and on railroads to ship them. Oil cities relied on nearby oil fields, and trading posts had to lie astride trade routes. The economic needs that created cities in turn created jobs. People flocked to them, and where industries were lasting, the workers stayed to build places to live.

In some cases these settlements produced small towns comprised of just a few houses, stores, a school and a church to serve local farmers or miners. For all of these major urban centers, a place-based economic role brought them into being and defined their identity. But when the economic opportunities move elsewhere, how can these cities sustain themselves as civilizations? Start reading Urban America: US cities in the global economy on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers.

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