John Ingham

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This is another dimension of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” consequences of increased connectivity with its resulting superlinear scaling as city size increases. Systematically having more per capita not only means higher wages, more patents, and more restaurants, greater opportunity, more social activity, and a greater buzz, but also more crime and disease—and living with greater stress, anxiety, and fear, and with less trust and
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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