Cities, Like Organisms, Are A Predictable Complex System Of Social Reactor And Network

Cities have long been likened to organisms, ant colonies, and river networks. Yet clever analogies fail to capture the essence of how cities really function.   A paper in Science attempts to derive a series of mathematical formulas that describe how cities' properties vary in relation to their population size, and then posits a unified, quantitative framework for understanding how cities function and grow. The resulting theoretical framework predicts dozens of statistical relationships observed in thousands of real cities around the world for which reliable data are available. read more

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