July 2011
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“(West considers urban theory to be a field without principles, comparing it to...”
– A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
Jonah Lehrer says that West compares urban theory to pre-Kepler period in astronomical sciences. I love that West totally disses urban theory. - tricia
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WatchFascinating talk from Geoffrey West - I read the article in NYT a few months ago but I’m a visual learner so I actually feel like I get this talk!
every week 1 million people are being added to cities until 2050
“Cities are the problems and cities are the solution”
quantitative metabolic rate to stay alive for all species lies at the same sub-linear slope = 3/4 <...
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Modern & Im/material things: Beyond Facebook:... →
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“Everyone was duly blown away by this amazing map of Facebook connections around the world, created by Facebook’s superstar intern Paul Butler…Gaetz simply took the lines of Butler’s map, colored them black, and overlaid them against another map, showing all of the areas in the…
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