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studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson

One approach that has been developed and is likely responsible for the turnaround of many downtown districts is the community economic development model of the business improvement district (BID), which is shown to reduce crime in business areas and improve real estate.6 The BID model relies on special assessments levied on commercial properties

This sort of a situation where each individual trajectory in the long run does something different from the average over a large ensemble is called non-ergodicity. So, this is a non-ergodic system.

Generally, the less square feet that are contained in a building the more energy for building materials and operations is consumed per person (by 2.5 times) and per square foot

The first logical problem in chain-link situations is to identify the bottlenecks, and Marco did that—quality, sales’ technical competence, and cost. The second, and greatest, problem is that incremental change may not pay off and may even make things worse.

in the real world, there is no such thing as an externality.

The displacement of the old working class has many explanations: globalization, financialization, automation, but also the concentration of economic activities (and most jobs) in large cities. ● Cities as the new factory floor aggravate problems that were previously overlooked. Improving the condition of the new urban working class is the main

The large-scale demolitions of public housing complexes was both expensive and disruptive to the people living in them, but it provided a unique opportunity to learn what happens to crime when these complexes are demolished. In the case of Chicago, the housing authority demolished nearly 22,000 units of high-rise public housing and relocated