The Challenges of the City Efficient Period

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This is also when like cities are hiring actual city planners as a profession. And so it's saying like cities have to be planned if they're not planned, there will be chaos. I think we also see more of kind of like the city becomes more bland or whatnot because of the way that things are built. We have these kind of cookie cutter big box stores and all this kind of stuff that's being built. And this is kind of what this period looks like. It's fascinating to hear you kind of periodize it in that way, but also to think about kind of the technologies that were involved in those periods,.

Paris Marx is joined by David A. Banks to discuss how cities have been reshaped to attract tech companies and what the consequences have been for the people who live in them.

David A. Banks is the author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. He’s a lecturer in the Geography and Planning department at University at Albany, SUNY. David also writers Other Day and co-hosts Iron Weeds. Follow David on Twitter at @DA_Banks.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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