Cities unleash tremendous creative and entrepreneurial energies, they require substantial oversight and investment on the parts of governments before they can succeed. Cities and megacities need not just virtual infrastructure, broadband and the like, but physical infrastructure to connect them internally and to each other, to speed up the velocity of moving people, goods, and ideas. China in particular has taken a leadership position with high-speed rail.

Richard Florida on cities and the creative class in Asia (via curiositycounts)