Sublime

L’ensemble de la planète est aujourd’hui engagé dans un processus d’urbanisation accélérée. Entre 1950 et 2000, la population urbaine du monde, y compris dans les pays en développement, a plus que triplé, passant de 750 millions à 2,9 milliards de personnes

Whether we like it or not, uncertainty seems to be ingrained in the nature of the universe, and it is why we can never predict the impact on a human life of events at its earliest or subatomic level.

The economy is not a closed static equilibrium system; it is a system perpetually open to novel behavior, and complexity economics forces us to keep this in mind.

We point demand to where we have supply, to cities that want it,” he said. Like other kinds of content in Filterworld, geography suffers from a problem of discovery. It’s hard to find a particular place to travel when there are so many options; recommendations must serve up interesting finds while also suggesting what is familiar and recognizable.

These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right

He does travel extensively, both for business and for pleasure (remember how this section begins), but he runs his itinerary as a largely variable expense. When possible, he departs from Kennedy Airport; JFK is the last stop on the E train; if the MTA misprices its service by charging a single fare regardless of distance, Sam will capitalize on it.

may vary because of terrain or the availability of different modes of transportation,

The everyday was the vague constellation of spaces and times outside what was organized and institutionalized around work, conformity, and consumerism. It was all the daily habits that were beneath notice, where one remained anonymous.

Home-market effects, where the disproportional location of industry results from demand change; Circular causality, whereby larger industries beget higher real incomes and vice versa; Emerging asymmetries between regions, in that workers and firms concentrate in one region versus another; Discontinuous agglomeration, where small changes in