Lucas Coelho

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There is, however, one human invention that has evolved via this process which is comparable to what traditional natural selection has thus far produced, and that is the city. Cities clearly have an organic nature and share much in common with traditional organisms. They metabolize, they grow, they evolve, they sleep, they age, they contract disease, suffer damage and repair themselves, and so on. On the other hand, they rarely reproduce nor do they easily die. Furthermore, their size is enormously greater than even a mythical Godzilla.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
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