Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West

Models of various kinds have been built for centuries, especially in architecture, but these were primarily to illustrate the aesthetic characteristics of the real thing rather than as scale models to test, investigate, or demonstrate the dynamical or physical principles of the system being constructed. And most important, they were almost always “made to scale,”