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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Urban Planning

I'm passionate about the urban. planning in particular, has a very checkered history. It is no accident that almost all synthetic cities have been failures. Brazilia, canborough, washington, d c - they've taken a long time to become a real city. And we're seeing it repeated, tragically, i think, in china,. because china has this pressure to build several hundred new cities in the next 25 years. They're just building them willy nilly and it's going to have horrible percussions. This is telisvery hand waving. Is given by the how far you can move inat actually now one hour by whatever the transport is.

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