The imminent arrival of the Second Machine Age (2MA) will usher in an era of unprecedented economic and social turmoil which is likely to rewrite, over the next quarter century, the structure and function of cities at up to 4 times the pace of the industrial revolution, which itself transformed cities in the two centuries...

The global wave of neo-liberal reform processes unleashed in the 1980s have a considerable distance to run as we progressively refine our ideas about the boundaries between private and public action, improvements to collaboration between the two, and appropriate levels and kinds of regulation.