PNAS: Innovation, growth, and the global future of urban life - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Jul 07
  

  Jeremy Price

  academic cities creativity ecology environment paper science urban

  • The inexorable trend toward urbanization worldwide presents an urgent challenge for developing a predictive, quantitative theory of urban organization and sustainable development.
  • the processes relating urbanization to economic development and knowledge creation are very general, being shared by all cities belonging to the same urban system and sustained across different nations and times.
  • as population grows, major innovation cycles must be generated at a continually accelerating rate to sustain growth and avoid stagnation or collapse.

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• 16 May 07
  

  Nathan Rein

  A new article suggests that many sociological indicators for urban life conform to a relatively simple mathematical model, and that the model predicts that "innovation cycles" will have to increase consistently in order to avoid urban "stagnation" or soci

  !toread cities del.icio.us_import economics future sociology

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