Santa-Fe-ing Dispersed Concentration as the New Normal

Written By Joel Garreau

Joel's "Santa Fe-ing Effect," in which the future of cities seems to be a technology-enabled drive toward dispersed, nicer and smaller places that are great at creating face-to-face contact, is noted by Witold Rybczynski in Slate. Rybczynski is Joel's favorite academic thinker about urbanity. This piece is adapted from his new book, "Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities."

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