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Results for: Creator / Instructor West, Geoffrey Resource Type Video Year 2011

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The Surprising Math of Cities And Corporations

Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.

Subjects:

Environmental Engineering and Mathematics and Statistics

Keywords:

Cities towns -- Growth -- Econometric models Sustainable urban development

Resource Type:

Video

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