Keep it simple. Copy success.

The future of cities is Lean. Really Lean.

Smart Cities plus bureaucracy equals bureaucracy

Worthwhile experiment. I first read of this in a story by Mack Reynolds.

“It sounds like angels!” A woman next to me whispered, “I’ve never heard that sound before when I was awake.”

“The concept of "sponge cities" became so popular in China that it caught the eye of no less than Chinese President Xi Jinping. In 2013, Xi called for strengthening the development of "sponge cities" …

“Work with what is already there. In Port-au-Prince, the most vulnerable areas have often been built informally — and sometimes illegally in places where residents don’t own the land.”

Leveling the regulation down instead of up.