The Scaling Laws of Cities

The point eight five and the 1.15 scaling laws are a manifestation of the underlying networks of which a city is a manifestation, he says. It's complicated for a city because the city contains two kinds of networks: biological like your circulatory system,. their roads and the electrical lines and gas lines and so on. More importantly, what a city is, is a bunch of social networks. The city is there because we are all interconnected with each other - whether that's in our homes with our families, whether it's in our jobs in our groups our divisions, and so on. A talks to be B talks to see C talkbacks to A, and you build on each other