Saturday, February 21, 2015

Ancient and modern cities surprisingly similar

Eric Hopton for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers from the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA have discovered that, in spite of notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements functioned in much the same way as modern cities. A key property of modern cities is “increasing returns to scale”, which is how scientists ...

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