“Downtown American cities in two hundred years will look pretty much as they do now.” Detailed Terms »

Same ingredients -- buildings no taller than now, a few new and different; similar mix of uses, residential, office, mini-manufacturing; streets full of vehicles, no flyways. Populations at the same order of magnitude. The industrial revolution was about re-arranging the matter in our lives; it made the city. The information revolution is not going to mess much with the atoms in our city; it will re-arrange our work, our relationships, and our identities, and animate the inanimate in the city. But standing downtown, you'll see what you see now.