Scaling Laws in Cities (Interview with Geoffrey West - Santa Fe Institute)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- 📺 Welcome to the 45th episode of the Circular Metabolism Podcast: Scaling Laws in Cities with Prof. Geoffrey West 📺.
🏙️ on today’s episode we will talk about complex adaptive systems, Kleiber’s law and how it is possible predict based on the size of the city how many patents it’s produced, how long are all of its roads or how many violent crimes have been committed. I can imagine that you might be lifting an eyebrow asking yourself how is that possible.
🎓 Well don’t worry to answer these questions I have the distinguished Prof Geoffrey West from Santa Fe Institute. Geoffrey is a physicist that has worked on particle theory but then shifted and focused his carrier to identify power laws in biology or in other terms how organisms and mammals metabolic rate change when we scale them up or down. He tested these power laws in cities and some surprising findings come out of it. All these elements can be found in his book “Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies”
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0:00 Introduction of the episode
2:02 Introduction of Geoffrey West
3:02 How does a physicist becomes interested in biology?
13:24 What is Kleiber’s law?
32:59 How did the biologists react to your work?
42:34 What is complexity? (VIDEO)
49:55 Scaling laws in cities (this episode is dedicated to Joao)
53:30 Can you help bridge the dichotomy between the quantitative and qualitative understanding of cities
1:04:17 What are scaling laws applied to cities?
1:27:21 What are the applications facing global sustainability challenges based on the knowledge of scaling laws in cities?
1:38:08 What will you work on during 2022
1:42:08 Can you recommend any books, movies or other media?
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1:00:37 This is how I see the GCoT model being useful - as a communication tool - it can work in a similar way to synergising the 17 SDGs - ie how they work in synergy and indicate how a city/human population centre may function with all 17SDGs having been realised - The reason I present the model as an image, is because the adage or phrase 'a picture paints a thousand words' it is left open for interpretation and can be used as a discussion aide between diverse disciplines - a multidisciplinary communication tool... it also has a 30,000 word thesis to go with it if anyone wants words too!
Tu reçois vraiment du beau monde sur ton podcast
Merci !! En effet quelle chance de pouvoir parler avec ce beau monde.
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Merci Maxime !
54:20 this is why I dedicated 14 years of my life to design a universal model of cities !!!
Oh wow. Any way someone can read/use it?
@@MetabolismofCities I cannot post any links, or write anything which hints at how to find it - it is removed or blocked by RUclips. Anybody can email me my email address is listed on my youtube account and I will reply with link. Many thanks again for another excellent video, such an insightful interview and discussion 🙏✨
GCoT Model Abstract:-
Synthesis of related subjects into synergistic models for planning communication can facilitate multi-disciplinary strategy, for adaptation planning. This is relevant for planning and adapting complex systems such as cities and other human population centres. This paper combines three fields within an holistic model proposed for elucidating urban complexity, improving energy efficiency, and for adaptation planning. Idealised models for transport infrastructure, mixed-use spatial design and, green infrastructure for ecosystem services are combined forming a holistic model. This model is presented with reference to peer reviewed articles and other publications. An implementation approach is proposed, showing its scalability, how diversity may be maintained in urban form and function, reconciled with unity in spatial planning, achieved through participatory urban planning approaches combined with established methods for ecological landscape restoration to achieve regenerative and sustainable development in dynamic equilibrium. A conceptualised, scaled and scalable spatial pattern is presented at city-scale, as an ecologically regenerative “smart” garden city model, and is referred to as the GCoT Model - acronym for Garden City of Today (Busby, 2014). This is presented for prospective use as an operational model and conceptual aid for strategic and adaptation planning, urban design and urban modelling.
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