Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

It just tells you that somebody in that place is likely to do it.

Yes, in my mind, we have learned a lot.

I think, again, you know, this could be another podcast episode, right?

Just on that issue.

I think...

I think we think about cities in many different ways, and many of them are quite wrong-headed, quite pathologically, even.

I think a lot of people still think that cities should not exist because they see all the disadvantages.

Couldn't we live differently?

Couldn't we all just be online and not have crime?

I mean, there's still crime online, right?

We bring it with us.

But nevertheless, you know, be different.

And so I think...

All this has made us begin to appreciate, there's been a big shift, what happens in cities that is good.

All these social interactions, the idea that we become interdependent, this produces knowledge, it produces economic growth, but it produces many other things.

It produces a different disposition in people that's expressed in politics, but also in many, many different ways.

It's much more future-oriented and so on.

And so it is in some sense associated with, again, as I said, development or positive change.

It's not to say that it's partly because the problems are clear and present.

So it's just you're facing the problems that are there.

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