Date: August 14th, 2007

Cities and scale: Part 2, the pile of evidence

14 August, 2007 (16:03) | Global news, Policy, Theory | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]

Yesterday we put up the remarkable — and if true, very important — hypothesis that city scaling behaves power laws analogous to those that influence biological scaling:
 

Animal body mass and metabolism scale
 
The thesis is put forward in a new PNAS paper, Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in […]