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#819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

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The Evolution of Cities

The bigger the city, if you double the size of a city, you get twice as much plus 15%. You sort of get this 15% more of wages, 15% more ideas and so on. All of that being reflected in this data, and all of it, irrespective of metric,. Whether it was good, like patents and wages, or bad and ugly, like disease and crime, all increasing in the same way with a slope of 1.15.

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