Against market urbanism

A city with virtually no for-profit sector is not the hill I want to die on in the short term. What I’m absolutely sick and tired of is cities pinning all their hopes on becoming “innovation hubs” or some other buzzphrase of rah-rah entrepreneurism. I would hope even the mildly left of center see that trickle down economics is a trap. The idea that the success of the few is a prerequisite for the survival of the many must, to continue the Reagan paraphrasing, be consigned to the ash heap of history.