Research area

Cities and Infrastructure

Cities and infrastructure reveal whether ambition can become physical capacity through housing, transport, energy, permitting, and execution.

Physical capacity layer · System in view

Housing, transport, energy, permitting, fiscal capacity, and the local ability to build.

Cities expose the distance between ambition and execution because they force policy, capital, labor, and land into the same system.

What this theme watches
  1. Where infrastructure compounds productivity
  2. Which local constraints become national constraints
  3. Who can still build at useful speed
Memo

The Crosscurrent

A war premium in energy and a capital boom in artificial intelligence are splitting the world economy into two circuits that one interest rate cannot govern.

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Publication record

All work in Cities and Infrastructure

Reports and memos ranked by publication date with content type, access, and read-time context.

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Essay

The AI Arms Race Is Becoming a Contest for Industrial Power

The real question is which company can turn capital expenditure into a self-reinforcing system of lower computing costs, stronger models, broader distribution, higher utilization, and recurring revenue.

Date
Jul 23, 2026
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Free
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8 min
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Memo

The Crosscurrent

A war premium in energy and a capital boom in artificial intelligence are splitting the world economy into two circuits that one interest rate cannot govern.

Date
Jul 17, 2026
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Free
Read
6 min
03
Memo

The New York Premium

A city moving more, growing safer, and becoming more expensive at the same time.

Date
Jun 1, 2026
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Free
Read
9 min

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