Luís M. A. Bettencourt
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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And before that, there were a few things that are a bit older, like Jericho and a few cities in today's...
Turkey, there were definitely settlements where people were farmers, but they had some division of labor and some evidence of a few other things.
But people fight if these were cities or not.
But they were certainly proto-cities.
And there are other things that I've come to the fore that are very interesting.
but they're probably not cities in the modern sense, which are these seasonal gatherings.
Sometimes with a lot of, you know, that we see in hunter-gatherers a lot, in almost every people before they have cities, they have places where they come together for a while, often with constructions, but it's non-permanent.
But it's kind of a pulsating city wanting to be a city.
It's kind of an instability.
Burning man.
Yeah.
Running Man is an example, and people actually use this.
A famous economist, Paul Romer, is also a friend.
He used to go there because he wanted to see some of those elements of a city.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that was the story.
That's right.
So that's another reason to study cities, because they are this very spectacular phenomenon.
It's a global phenomenon.
It's happening everywhere.
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