Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
From Geoffrey West
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.
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