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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

COMPLEXITY

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Why Does Change Happen So Quickly?

"Cities are these environments, i like to call them, places where a lot is going on," he says. "And other times i just feels all my gosh, you know, it's a different reality." The author grew up in the Portuguese city of lisbon and studied physics instead of social justice at university. He believes that science can help us understand how change happens quickly or not.

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