Why Most Cities Thrive and What We Can Learn From Them

Why Most Cities Thrive and What We Can Learn From Them

How New York City and other metropolises will overcome the pandemic economic shock. Why do some cities thrive while others devolve into chaos? How we can develop the resiliency of thriving cities.

Topics covered include:

  • How New York and other cities have dealt with the pandemic economic shock
  • Why the city of Port au Prince in Haiti is struggling
  • Why do cities fail less frequently than companies
  • How we can replicate the rhythms and cycles of cities
  • How most cities can evolve in response to the pandemic and we can too


Thanks to Felix Gray and Alto CryptoIRA for sponsoring the episode.

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Show Notes

Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New York City— U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey B. West

The Office Sector in New York City by Brian McElwain, Anita Yadavalli, and Amar Mehta—Office of the New York Comptroller

Desperate Haitians suffocate under growing power of gangs by Dánica Coto and Alberto Arce—The Associated Press

California’s approach to gendered toys says a lot about the state’s political direction—The Economist

HB 389: Poor policy, poorly written, bad for rural Idaho by Geoffrey Wardle—Idaho Business Review

Human History Gets a Rewriteby By William Deresiewicz—The Atlantic

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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