Cities are like social reactors, where human interactions lead to various outcomes. The sublinear behavior in infrastructure is due to increased population or area. This interaction also results in superlinear effects like crime, innovation, and epidemics. Cities squeeze us in, making it easier to interact. This creates a cycle where sustained socioeconomic interaction accelerates over time.
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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