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Category Archives: Scaling
Extreme MegaCities
James Canton in a prescient article in Significance argues that cities will diversify as they get larger. Like Dobbs & Remes in their McKinsey report, he argues there is effectively no limit on their growth. At least not in terms … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Scaling, Smart Cities, Uncategorized
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Complexity in Regional Science: The Alonso Lecture
Here is my lecture given at the North American Regional Science Association Annual Conference in Miami, 11th Nov 2011. It is as good a summary as I can muster of complexity theory applied to cities & regions. I focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Allometry, Complex Systems, Entropy, Morphology, Scaling
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More Complexity: What von Neumann said to Shannon
Martin Austwick has an interesting piece on defining complexity which is what I am trying to do in my Spatial Complexity course. If you click on the link to the left or here, there is a small comment about entropy … Continue reading
Posted in Complex Systems, Entropy, Scaling, Social Physics
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Spatial Complexity
Started my new lecture course on Spatial Complexity at Arizona State University. It’s killing me doing relatively new stuff day after day. Lectures are posted after given: Seven so far, the last on Wednesday (2/11) (at http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/
Posted in Complex Systems, Evolution, Scaling, Social Physics
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What Is Social Physics?
Several previous posts suggest that our Science of Cities is more like Biology than Physics but Social Physics has a long history. CASA’s Martin Austwick recently gave an impromptu review from Quetelet’s original definition to Comte’s rebuttal. Useful definitions from Stewart … Continue reading
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