How can a small town become more entrepeneurial, competitively against a city, or without becoming a city?
The past 300 years shows that rural is simply not economically highly-productive.
The past 300 years shows that rural is simply not economically highly-productive.
Eventually we'll even live in starships and colonize distant planets if we don't kill ourselves first, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that will not be our defacto mode of living in my life time, and the same goes for vertical farms.
I know this as I used to work for Acxiom, headquartered in Conway, Arkansas. (Population: about 30k then, an hour from the Little Rock airport). It really was a restriction.