CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Ever play the computer

CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Ever play the computer simulation ‘life’? what happens as the rate increases? Patterns emerge that were previously imperceptible. Cities themselves are temporary infrastructure.

—-“the U.S consists of old and new cities. New cities such as Las Vegas have less “crumbling infrastructure” because the capital stock was built in the last 30 years. Older cities such as Detroit and Cleveland and even Los Angeles have an older public capital stock (roads, sewer pipes, airports). As more people move to new cities, the old cities have fewer Congressmen representing them and this leads to less pork flowing to such places. Spatial cross-city political economy is an important subfield that political scientists should be working on.”—- ibid