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Scaling 3: Why companies die, but cities don't
Simplifying Complexity
Cities and Biological Organisms: Scaling Laws Apply to Both
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- Cities have underlying scaling laws that allow us to predict many key things about them
- Scaling laws are not exact because complex systems are continually evolving
- Despite different histories, cultures, and geographies, cities have an individuality and difference in performance from the predicted scaling laws
- Scaling laws allow for almost deterministic predictions about things like the length of roads and electrical lines, number of patents, police officers, crimes, and diseases within 80-90% accuracy
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