City Building in a Hot, Flat and Crowded Post-American World, by Fukuyama, Zakaria and Friedman
Three Views of Governance in the 21st Century: The three books, written before the Great Recession, resonate today. Messrs. Fukuyama, Zakaria and Friedman, collectively, offer important insights and advise to those concerned with building a just, sustainable and prosperous world. Institutions are being attacked and diminished at a time when they should be improved and strengthened. Cities, states and nations can benefit from the thoughts found in these important books.
Cities survive and prosper, or not, within the context of the world and its global systems; always have and always will, even when the connection is hard to find. In order to form a more perfect community, the experiences and premises that form the world’s best systems offer useful lessons. The three books reviewed here, written by three outstanding systemic thinkers, present a contextual picture of fundamental socio-political principles that can guide cities, states and nations, large and small, to be successful economic, natural and social systems.
- “Hot, Flat and Crowded, Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America” by Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
- “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria, W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
- “State-Building, Governance and the New World Order in the 21st Century” by Francis Fukuyama, Cornell University Press, 2004.
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