A few days ago, I had a great conversation with the physicist and entrepreneur Cesar Hidalgo, one of the people who established the field of Economic Complexity. Our full conversation will run in next week’s episode of my Exponential View podcast.
In the meantime, I wanted to share one segment from our discussion exclusively with the members of EV.
We cover:
What is happening to the growing cities in the East and the West as our economies become increasingly knowledge-intensive?
Is the West seeing a reemergence of middle-sized cities and what could this mean for innovation?
What does it take to make a mega-city work, and why is China successful in this?
This ties back to the essay which VC investor James Wise wrote for Exponential View over the weekend, where he looks at the future of cities in the West as dependent on the well-being on the regions. James also proposes some fixes for the biggest troubles of large cities: the housing crisis, poor transportation, and decreasing productivit…
