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Jacobs’s critics find that her analogies between economic networks, cities, and ecosystems run too close to biology and that she falls short of emphasizing the important role of human agency, intentionality, or the social institutions that support innovation.

began to wonder whether each statute I encountered, each city code, each emerging community standard regarding waste and its reuse wasn’t in reality designed to eliminate any form of material

The tasks sent overseas are simply the ones whose greater costs—environmental damage and health risks—can be externalized to the natives of the country where they are being performed. Labor is treated as a commodity.

Complexity is the bane of nationalist…

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This framework allows us to connect spatial and material aspects of settlements available in the archeological record to social and economic network processes and their products, including a society’s collective capacity to produce private and public goods and its associated division of labor and knowledge.

Guobin Yang and Craig Calhoun have dubbed this activism the ‘Green public sphere’ in China.

larger cities tend to exhibit greater economic productivity and expanded access to housing and urban services, which nucleate solutions for sustainable development within their nations. Second, despite these positive consequences, large inequality patterns emerge as access to services is initially expanded.