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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
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Is That Important With a Giant City?
A lot of economies of scale come from like geometric effects, whereas something gets bigger, your volume increases a lot faster than your surface area. The cost goes down for a thing of unit you're transporting because you can carry a larger amount or less for a smaller amount of material. It applies to some extent with buildings and construction because the exterior wall assembly is like a really burdensome and complicated and expensive assembly. But for a giant city, I actually don't know if that works and it may be worse because you're generating so much heat that it's now harder to pump out.
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