AXIOS November 7, 2019
Smartphones are chock-full of apps that can hail anything from rides to meals to toiletries — and this digital revolution comes with a physical footprint that is changing the way cities look and function.
Why it matters: To support the new consumer lifestyle, companies are choking cities with cars, bikes and warehouses. The technology that makes it possible for urban dwellers to summon everything in an instant clearly comes with still-unknown costs.
“In a major city, you don’t really have to leave the house,” says Richard Florida, an urban studies scholar at the University of Toronto. But all of those delivery and ride-hailing services “add pressure on cities in terms of traffic congestion and power use...
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