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Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
The geography of most modern urbanization can ultimately be traced back to navigable waterways and deep harbors, followed by hundreds or even thousands of years of network effects pertaining to industry (i.e., progressive integration of labor and capital) and the iteratively compounding Pareto distributions that naturally follow.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
US Environmental Protection Agency,2 US Department of Housing and Urban Development,3 National Association of Realtors,4 Smart Growth America,5 Reconnecting America,6 Center for Neighborhood Technology,7 Center for Transit-Oriented Development,8
Arthur C. Nelson • Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)
aristocracy. Lumberjacks by day, conductors of the philharmonic
Matthew McConaughey • Greenlights
megalopolis endured three of the ten most costly national disasters since the Civil War.
Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
manufacturing describe neither present-day cities—dominated by services—nor preindustrial urban centers
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Jacksonville is two hours south of Savannah on I-95. It is the largest city in the United States by area, and at nine hundred thousand residents, it is the most populous city in Florida and in the Southeast. Before it was named after Andrew Jackson, it was known as Wacca Pilatka (Seminole), Fort Caroline (French), and Cow Ford (British). Now it has
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