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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
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Scaling Laws
Cities have incredibly higher energies than echo systems. They tend to actually speed you up and make you go faster. In fact, ha city's not efficient. We having a school of sustainability in part because cities are not built to save energy. But they 're about all the things you could do with interaction. The only system that has soe of these properties exists in nature which emits products at a higher rate is the sun.
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