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

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The Sublinear Scaling of the City

The bigger the city, the better in that very simple sense of efficiency. You need less per capita of everything, roughly speaking. That was interesting, but that's, you know, the less interesting part of the city. What is the city for the whole point of all that infrastructure is so that people can to bring people together and have social interaction.

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