Date: June 20th, 2008

Urbanizing requires formalization: Part 2, the consequences

20 June, 2008 (07:57) | Cities, Global news, Markets, Speculation, Theory | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post laid out as a hypothesis, and then proved as a syllogism, that: 
Urbanization implies Formality

Und it has been proofen!
 

 
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