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What Is a City?
United Kingdom Architecture News - Sep 24, 2014 - 16:03 4103 views
A pair of physicists tackle a seemingly simple, incredibly complicated question.
Physicists Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt of the Santa Fe Institute have looked at data from cities around the world to try to understand what, exactly, cities ... are. They've found that surprising patterns undergird the growth of all urban systems.
Read more on their research here.
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