Walter Russell Mead, commenting on the excellent Glenn Thrush article on Pittsburgh’s renewal, writes:
Our economy is hyperdependent on innovation, and the cities that spend time nostalgically pinning for the 1950s style Fordist economy, trying to preserve the blue model for a few years longer, or heaping regulations and taxes on key economic actors, will be left behind by cities that give entrepreneurs more room to operate. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurs can lay the groundwork for broad regional renewals.
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To read the original article: Cities that embrace innovation are leaving behind cities clinging to the old blue model / Ryan Streeter
