City Building in a Hot, Flat and Crowded Post-American World

City Building in a Hot, Flat and Crowded Post-America World is an essay based on a review of three books. The essay draws heavily upon three books respectively by: Fukuyama [2004] who addresses city building; Zakaria [2009] who ponders a post-American world; and Freidman [2008] who has built on his flat world book to add the aspects of global warming and the world’s population growth. New ideas about governance are foundational to the approach of all three noted thinkers and authors who have independently offered their views on how to govern and prosper in the 21st century’s connected and instantaneous environment. Separately, their ideas present a coherent structure for city building and prosperity throughout the world based on market capitalism, liberal democracy and the rule of law within a global context that addresses climate change, population growth and technological advances. When the three treatises are viewed together, a holistic system for governance, societal success, economic prosperity and physical sustainability emerges. Each book is individually fascinating; collectively they are even better.

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