If work changes, cities will follow. Urban form has always been tightly coupled to dominant modes of production and coordination. As digital work expands, the spatial logic of cities may begin to evolve in subtle but important ways.

This chapter sketches the early contours of what might be called City 3.0 — urban environments optimized not only for industrial production or service clustering, but for distributed, digitally mediated activity.

The vision is not of empty downtowns or universal remote work. Rather, it is of cities that become more polycentric, more flexible, and potentially more human-scaled as the necessity of daily physical co-location declines in some sectors.

Urban evolution is slow, but the pressures now building beneath the surface suggest that the next phase of city development may already be underway.