Luís M. A. Bettencourt
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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It's kind of stuck there and so on.
There are, of course, pathological situations where that's true of people as well in the place they are.
And that was obviously more common
in the past and so on, but it's still nevertheless a problem.
But you kind of see these issues also as you start understanding conceptually what's going on and you can ask these questions.
So a lot of the problems, for example, of poverty and other issues there, social, they have to do with this being close but not being able to access the network that cities are in principle creating.
but they're not available to everybody.
So that's another set of issues, but it's kind of important because it has to do, obviously, with very important social and economic problems.
But it's also, if you allow me to just take a step back, it's also, if you will, the city being formed, not as a place, but as a network.
And the people that can join it and the people that cannot or the people that can join it to a greater degree in different dimensions.
So you see kind of this mechanism at play.
Yeah, so this is kind of what in complex systems often we call scaling.
It's a way of thinking.
It's also a bit of math.
But that's sort of an entry point, but it's very easy to say.
And this has a long history as an idea.
I think it was done by engineers trying to have models of buildings and models of ships and trying to think about if you build a real thing, what you need to change.
But we also do it in science, for example.
Obviously, in physics, we do this a lot.
For example, if you think about a gas and you double the size of the box...
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