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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
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Urban cognitive overload
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,. In our ability to manage them. This, part of their magic is that they allow things that we never thought were possible, possible. Sometimes social psychologists call urban a cognitive overload. And then that trickles through the whole not just the large city, and allows people everywhere to do new things. So that's kind of very special. Of course, it will have ultimate limits, but in many ways, those limits keep on being the the actual limits keep onBeing pushed.
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