[MakeLV] Much Excitement About Cities!

[Ellis Farmer]

Matthew and anyone who likes White papers, Music, and Charts,

I happened across a nifty quote that I thought you'd like... and it has
references!

"... there is currently much excitement surrounding the observation that
productivity, efficiency, and innovation all scale super-linearly with the
size of a city.[14]-[16]"
-Conrad Lee and Pádraig Cunningham <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2677v1.pdf>

[14] L. Bettencourt and G. West, “Bigger cities do more with less,”
Scientific American, vol. 305, no. 3, pp. 52–53, 2011.
[15] L. Bettencourt, J. Lobo, D. Helbing, C. Kühnert, and G. West, “Growth,
innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities,” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 17, p. 7301, 2007.
[16] S. Arbesman, J. M. Kleinberg, and S. H. Strogatz, “Superlinear scaling
for innovation in cities,” Phys. Rev. E, vol. 79, p. 016115, Jan 2009.
[Online]. Available: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.016115

Plus, the paper has a graph of Euclidian Normalized Radiohead vs Euclidian
Normalized Coldplay, which is pretty awesome.

-Ellis
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