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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

COMPLEXITY

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Is a Star a Reactor?

Cities are our basic of the creation of e concentrated network in a place, but then ther also of lodga networks cities. The physics of a star is limited and runs out eventually of resources and energy, but has a little bit of the same logic as you see in the city. And so it sounds to me as though cities can really only be understood in as themselves creatures of a network, and that they're in communication with each other.

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