cities create wealth generate employment and drive human progress by harnessing the forces of agglomeration and industrialization cites also offer greater societal freedoms in the process of urbanization however there have been some bumps along the road many of which are discussed in chapters to while it is easy to ascribe all these changes to urbanization such a causal connection would be superficial the model is a result of relentless globalization the unfettered transformation of cities into sources of private gain a declining attention to public space and community benefit and rapid technological change which in the end increases connectivity while it diminishes accountability