Please read Jane Jacob's …

Please read Jane Jacob's "The Economy of Cities". Although less known than her seminal "Death and Life of Great American Cities" it is filled with her hallmark vision, clarity and good sense. In a nut shell, she says new businesses, new products, new services, new jobs, are all created in innovative cities. Cities that are dense, diverse, and have thousands of small businesses all located close together. They are not created by large corporations or government giveaways. Allowing more urban sprawl may appear to be business friendly, but it isn't.