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Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
between material infrastructure and population change that when cities grow quickly plays out so tragically in the form of slums also plays a detrimental role when cities shrink.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
by assumption, no one has an incentive to switch professions, just places.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Alex Taussig • Firehose #168: 🏙 Urban flight. 🏙
We would now like to account for the behavior of collective growth in a system of cities and the pattern of relative fluctuations. Specifically, we would like to understand at a fundamental level the slowness and persistence of these deviations from scaling as well as get a handle on their typical magnitudes.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The most complete study of this problem that we know, comes from Ian McHarg (Design With Nature, New York: Natural History
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Richard Roberts • Limits to Growth at 50: the groundbreaking study that failed to change the world
flows between places was often reasonably well described
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The flip side of the observed constancy and stability of growth rates in American cities is that extant wage disparities between urban areas become extremely slow to reverse.