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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
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Eliminate Slums and Applying a Network Model to Cities
In a city, everyone is independent. You cannot grow your own food and so vor. So you need to go around space and find food, find services,. work, et cetera. As a city forms, that network is forming. And when you look at slums or people that sort of at the edge of the city, sometimes socially, sometimes in physical terms, thatnetwork is not there yet. It's an incipient part of the city if you will. But as we look ato o the explosion of ardent growth of the last decades, we now have maybe up to about a billion people living in conditions just incipient in this sense.
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