COVID pushes us towards something like Prosperable

This is Kyle’s own thesis, recorded against his read of The New Urban Crisis: the pandemic accelerates the case for Prosperable / The New City and the micro cities design. Florida’s data says the affluent return to the dense urban core for three reasons — high-paying jobs, short commutes, and amenities. Remote Work dissolves the first two by removing the proximity and commute constraints on a high-paying job, leaving amenities as the only remaining draw. And in a COVID world the desired amenities have inverted: backyards, larger houses, and open space become more attractive than the density of the core — pointing people away from mega-cities and toward deliberately designed micro-cities. The idea ties Richard Florida’s “micro cities over sprawl and mega-cities” prescription directly into Kyle’s Prosperable project and the EPCOT hub-and-spoke model from Walt Disney and the Promise of Progress City.

Where this appears

• The New Urban Crisis — Kyle’s note threading remote work + COVID-era amenity preferences into the Prosperable / micro-cities thesis, as a corollary to Florida’s argument against suburban sprawl and mega-cities.