How Does the City Come to Be?

i know how digital products come to be, but how does the city come to be? So maybe you can illuminate that for us a little bit. One of alanbert's main points is that historically, cities have been labor markets. That's what brings them together. It's what sort of is the sinew that holds it all together. And i think it's really interesting, because we're now going into a new era where more and more work can be done remotely. The labor market is in the cloud. So if cities no longer have to be the labor market, what does that look like? How do we now think about the places that we live? How does that change