A Million More Neighbors Toronto, Seattle and San Francisco prove high density looks terrific T here is a new economy out there that adds to the acceleration in the speed of change. It will also affect the types of jobs, where they will be clustered, and how they will network within communities. The time of Fortune 500 companies and long commutes to get to disparate workplaces is coming to an end. The preoccupation with numbers, rather than who they are, dulls our ethics.
Time marches on, but the questions remain.
Traffic is connected to people in cars going to distant workplaces, all at the same time, like a post-holiday sale, only every weekday. Because there was planning and ride-sharing and people were allowed to come to work at different times. There was no technological breakthrough, only the presence of uncommon common sense. We must study them, understand their possibilities, figure out how to pay for them and then get them going. The new economy ensures that change is a must rather than an option.