Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

Fractals and Scaling (2021)

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Papers

Bettencourt, Luis, and Geoffrey West. "A unified theory of urban living." Nature. 467.7318 (2010): 912-913.  [pdf] A short, non-technical essay about the potential impacts of urban scaling research.

Bettencourt, Luís MA, et al. "Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities." Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 104.17 (2007): 7301-7306.  [html]  One of the first papers to apply ideas from metabolic scaling to cities.

 

Videos

Luís Bettencourt, From Scaling to Practice: Real World Applications of Cities Research .  Santa Fe Institute Science Board Symposium. May 12, 2014.

Luís Bettencourt, Cities as complex adaptative systems.  A talk given at the Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidads, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, November, 2013.

Geoffrey West, The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations.  a TED talk from July 2011.

 

See also the page for the Cities, scaling, and sustainability group at the Santa Fe Institute.