differences between cities that grow and cities that don't

Not very dense unfortunately

Two types of cities:

• producer cities: make stuff. Textiles, finance, whatever
• consumer cities: have exogenous wealth (oil money, land rents, government spending) and spend it there

Consumer cities

• have lower quality of life (poverty, slums, sanitation, education, health, etc)
• are lower average productivity because more people are in service jobs
• productivity growth is also lower in those service sector jobs
• are less dynamic and innovative
• have many fewer working age adults

+1 to transportation networks being a big deal