An Interesting Spin on Urban Sprawl

“Cities can’t be managed, and that’s what keeps them so vibrant. They’re just these insane masses of people, bumping into each other and maybe sharing an idea or two. It’s the freedom of the city that keeps it alive.” The physicist Geoffrey West has a new approach to how we interpret cities and the world, highlighted in this recent article by the New York Times: A Physicist Solves the City.