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Does the future belong to third-world mega-cities?

Rana Dasgupta, an author based in New Delhi, asserts that third-world metropolises in India, Africa and China are supplanting New York, London and Paris as the paramount symbols of modernity. "If, for the better part of the 20th century, it was New York and its glistening imitations that symbolised the future, it is now the stacked-up, sprawling, impromptu city-countries of the third world. ... Western tourists have been commenting for decades on the ingenuity they find in third-world streets - 'I never knew there were so many ways of making money' - but now they see the improvisational ethos of these bricolage cities elevated into a form of global ambition, and realise that the unlikely potential of the third-world city was never unlikely at all. It is conceivable, in fact, that the cities from which the grand thoughts of the future will flow may look entirely unfamiliar to Americans and Europeans."

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