The Practicality of Becoming a Smart City and the Limitations of Centralized Planning

This chapter explores the challenge of implementing core design principles to create cooperative actors at a larger scale, emphasizing the practicality of becoming a smart city, county, or watershed. It discusses the limitations of laissez-faire and centralized planning, proposing a managed process of cultural evolution as a viable alternative. The chapter also discusses the potential role of artificial intelligences programmed with principles of evolution in aiding planning.