Large Is Smart

Jason pointed me to this amazing-sounding study on the whole metaphor of cities as biological organisms. Key graph from the coverage is this:

What they found were some general correlations of size and resource consumption that more or less fit the biological organism metaphor, meaning as the city grew in size it required less energy (resources) to sustain it in a proportion called sublinear scaling. What was surprising to the team was when they measured creative output (jobs, wealth generated, innovation) as cities grew, the scaling of this output was not sublinear, but superlinear, meaning as the city grew its creative output grew faster and faster.

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[brian1625]

Well, what is your take on it?

I look forward to hearing your response on your podcast. [I'm kidding... but I can dream right?]

[nakliyat]

thank you very much very very nıce.........

[Bill White]

I have always thought this to be true, but not completely new. See Jane Jacobs' books.

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