[MakeLV] Much Excitement About Cities!

[Matthew Tuerk]

This is making my brain buzz. Anyone inclined to purchase the paper and leave it in the Hive will be thanked.
Matthew Tuerk

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On May 1, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Ellis Farmer wrote:

> 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
> 
> [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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