links for 2009-05-20
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Interesting post from a Harvard economist, who points out that a flattening world hasn't made cities irrelavent – it's made them more important. "Knowledge moves more quickly at close quarters, and as a result, cities are often the gateways between continents and civilizations."
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An international poll on global/national identity reveals that people who travel a lot or know lots of people abroad are more likely to identify as citizens of the world. Chinese and Taiwanese people in particular were likely to identify globally, instead of nationally
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