The Power of Cities in Complex Systems

Cities are emergent complex adaptive social network systems, resulting from the continuous interactions among their inhabitants. There's a relationship isn't there between the sizes of a certain city, and how many of those cities we have so cities scale essentially don't they. And listeners may be wondering why we're talking about cities in complex systems podcast,. I mean I think it intuitively makes sense but you've got a lovely quote in your book called scale. So we're going to dig into this and we're gonna hear all about power laws again. We're going to hear some magic numbers like the number four that tells us a lot about how cities work.