The future of cities and the future of work - Resilience

I spoke last week at a conference in Cardiff on the future of work. It was organised by the law firm Dawson Gray. You can't talk about the the future of work without thinking about the future city, since the shape and structure of work is bound up more or less completely with the shape and structure of cities. Edward Glaeser's book The Triumph of the City (2012) gets a lot of love in these conversations. It's hard to find people who have a bad word to say about it. Cities are the absence of physical space between people and companies.