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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
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Is There an Effective Limit to the Size of a City?
Is there an effective limit to the size of a city? Or perhaps, is there aneffective limit to thesize of a human habitable city? And then a new category that we haven't really seen on this planet yet. Is it possible that this thromo dynamic reaction is going to lead to something like robin hanson, the economist, imagines, where we have cities that are entirely digital and people don't even live within them? What do you think is sort of the end game of this massive demographic shift that we're seeing here? And what kind of balance do you think we're going to strike?
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