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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

COMPLEXITY

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Cities Are Not Just Cities, They Are Cities

We don't know how to unpack that process and ask, for example, if in sanafe to day? Was there economic growth? What were its sources? What was it for that person or that neighborhood? So we don't have a way to have access to the true, microscopic, personal level processes at creating that change. It's not just the fault of cities. But goes a lot through structures of production, what firms do, what kind of wages and wage inequality they promote. And so we misseng sort of a fundamental understanding of how citiess as these environments that create change at a short term, disagregated way.

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