Maths of cities
August 3, 2011 Leave a comment
A good Ted Talk available here on the maths of cities and corporations and comparing with relationships found in biology – every week, from now until 2050, 1 million people will be added to the population of the planet’s cities.
There are economies of scale for mammals (such as this relationship which holds over 8 orders of magnitude in size) as there are for cities:
Marc Gawley 