Date: August 13th, 2007

Cities and scale: Part 1, the grand theory

13 August, 2007 (09:06) | Global news, Policy, Theory | No comments

Why aren’t human beings an average of nine feet tall?  Isn’t size an advantage?
 

Robert Wadlow,  8′ 11″, died at the age of 22 of blood poisoning
 
For that matter, why aren’t we three feet tall?  (Arthur C. Clarke once observed that for going into space, smaller people would be better, since they will need much less […]