Recent history is littered with failed urban growth strategies derived from outdated models. Such efforts are cheap and politically expedient to announce, but drain municipal coffers during implementation. Chicago can alternatively stake its future on the more sustainable and farsighted growth model of networked interdependence.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/004908-global-cities-21st-century-a-chicago-model
New Geography, 28 Apr 2015.
NUS news page:
http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/news/global-cities-in-the-21st-century-a-chicago-model/
Brief review by Aaron M. Renn: