Cities of the Future

In the previous chapter, we examined the limits of urban micro-interventions from a Jacobsian Market Urbanist framework. Here we use that framework to address a different but related set of questions: To what extent is it feasible to consciously plan for “urban vitality”? How much political authority is needed to accomplish this? How workable are some of the recent, imaginative proposals for city planning and rebuilding? We also analyze the nature of different kinds of rules and how they relate to the difference between “governance” and “government,” which entails digging more deeply into some of the concepts we have already been using.