British - Physicist | 1940 -
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
Geoffrey West
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Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.
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A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
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