Opinion | A Legendary World Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities
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Opinion | A Legendary World Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities
The future of humanity and the long-term sustainability of the planet are inextricably linked to the fate of our cities. Cities are the crucible of civilization, the hubs of innovation, the engines of wealth creation and centers of power, the magnets that attract creative individuals, and the stimulant for ideas, growth, and innovation. But they al
... See moreGeoffrey West • Scale
The story of humanity is an urban one, a slow 20,000 year drift towards a largely urban condition. A city does the same thing to individualism that a natural ecosystem does to a tree — thriving there is about living well with people who are not like you. Just as a tree revels in those multifarious interdependencies, so we do with cities.
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
One of the major lessons we learn from the unique complexity of life is the following: the only thing we can always expect when manipulating the living world is that there will be unexpected consequences. By definition, those consequences are rarely aligned with the initial goal of our intervention. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and our curren... See more
Understanding Living Systems
Is the cosmic compulsion for disorder matched by an equally powerful compulsion for order, structure, and organization?
Mitchell Waldrop • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
The physicist Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute made a remarkable discovery about cities.