Planned Cities Change to Suit the Needs of Locals - Daniel Brook

As large American corporations like Starbucks, Coca Cola, and McDonalds continue their global conquest, distant cities like Dubai, St. Petersburg, and Beijing lose some of their local flavor. But Daniel Brook, author of A History of Future Cities, assures Boyd that this has always been the case. He says that some of the world’s most recognizable and visited cities were started as copy-cats that mimic other places. But what happens next is the important part: over the decades that follow, planned cities evolved and changed by locals in ways that their planners never could have anticipated.