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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

COMPLEXITY

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Cities Are Changing Space and Time

In many ways, cities are bending space and time. They making it more intense, more full, faster in terms of the number of events and their complexity. This, part of their magic is that they allow things that we never thought were possible,. But they come through this intensification the need to manage these very intense environmentsFull of challenges and full of, you know what? Sometimes social psychologists call urban a cognitive overload.

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