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Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities [1]

Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also its main source of crime, pollution, and disease. The inexorable trend toward urbanization worldwide presents an urgent challenge for developing a predictive, quantitative theory of urban organization and sustainable development. Here we present empirical evidence indicating that the processes relating urbanization to economic development and knowledge creation are very general, being shared by all cities belonging to the same urban system and sustained across different nations and times.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2007
Luís M. A. Bettencourt [2], Jose´ Lobo [3], Dirk Helbing & et al [4]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [5]
104
7
7301–7306
Tags:
Urbanisation [6], Urban Habitat [7], United States Of America (US) [8], China [9], Europe [10], Urban Water Supply [11], Electricity [12], AIDS [13], Conflicts [14], Health Care [15], Population Trends [16]

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