Swedish economist and futurist Kjell nordström predicted decentralization of Moscow and other cities.
In an interview with RBC he said that the pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 will not stop the processes that are changing the global economy for the past thirty years – globalization, digitalization and urbanization.
According to forecasts of the economist, in the coming decades, most developed 600 cities in the world – for example, Moscow, Shanghai and London will provide about 80 percent of the entire economy. However, the city decentralized and will resemble a cluster of "villages".
"Already, many cities in all their urban landscapes are not the same cities they begin to unravel into separate areas within which people live their lives" said Nordstrom.
The economist likened such towns with campuses in big cities where people live and work related to science and education. Nordstrom suggested that in our days the image of such a future more suited to Silicon valley or the Israeli city of Rehovot, where a few universities.
The Celle Nordstrom specializiruetsya on studies of globalization and transnational corporations. Co-authored with his colleague Jonas Ridderstrale he wrote the books "Business funky" and "Karaoke capitalism", which became a worldwide bestseller. Also advised the British government and worked at Volvo, Pharmacia, and other corporations.
