How Cities Sell Themselves to the Tech Industry

Paris Marx is joined by David A. Banks to discuss how cities have been reshaped to attract tech companies and what the consequences have been for the people who live in them.

David A. Banks is the author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. He’s a lecturer in the Geography and Planning department at University at Albany, SUNY. David also writers Other Day and co-hosts Iron Weeds. Follow David on Twitter at @DA_Banks.

• David wrote about Richard Florida, the creative class, and his book The New Urban Crisis.
• An excerpt of his book was published in Dwell.

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