Cities experience super-linear scaling, meaning that as city size increases by 100 percent, the benefits such as increased patents and wages actually exceed 100 percent, reaching around 115 percent. However, this scaling also leads to negative aspects like higher disease rates and crime.
Today we're joined by Luis Bettencourt, Professor at the University of Chicago, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Luis is going to pull apart how cities work, why they work the way they do, what's good about them, and what's bad about them. He's also going to talk specifically about slums, and the challenges that exist in raising people out of poverty.
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