Thanks to the technology revolution, towns are now the best places to provide work and community
Photograph: Mark Lennihan/APThomas Heatherwick, and his vision of the future of the city landscape , fails to address the question: why cities in the first place? From the agricultural revolution around Ur to the Industrial Revolution, cities have been the centre of trade and commerce and provided a magnet to more rural populations. All this has been superseded by the technology revolution.
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