The Death and Life of Great American Cities
and strategic investment underpinning economic growth. We used deductive reasoning to derive general properties of cities, such as scaling relations and the laws of geography, as averages of processes over populations and time. We have seen that such “laws” describe the system as a whole but, like any average, do not actually apply to any specific
... See moreLuis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
