Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
by Geoffrey West
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Scale The Universal Laws of Growth ~ Scale The Universal Laws of Growth Innovation Sustainability and the Pace of Life in Organisms Cities Economies and Companies First Edition Edition
Why Cities Keep on Growing Corporations Always Die and ~ As organisms cities and companies scale up they all gain in efficiency but then they vary The bigger an organism the slower Yet the bigger a city is the faster it runs
Human Knowledge Foundations and Limits ~ Fideisms Judaism is the Semitic monotheistic fideist religion based on the Old Testaments 1000600 BCE rules for the worship of Yahweh by his chosen people the children of Abrahams son Isaac c1800 BCE Zoroastrianism is the Persian monotheistic fideist religion founded by Zarathustra c628c551 BCE and which teaches that good must be chosen over evil in order to achieve salvation
References Definitions and Notes — The World Factbook ~ An acronym is an abbreviation coined from the initial letter of each successive word in a term or phrase In general an acronym made up solely from the first letter of the major words in the expanded form is rendered in all capital letters NATO from North Atlantic Treaty Organization an exception would be ASEAN for Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Energy and the Human Journey Where We Have Been Where We ~ Significant Energy E vents in Earths and Lifes History as of 2014 Energy Event Timeframe Significance Nuclear fusion begins in the Sun c 46 billion years ago “bya” Provides the power for all of Earths geophysical geochemical and ecological systems with the only exception being radioactivity within Earth
Jane Jacobs Wikipedia ~ Jane Jacobs OC OOnt née Butzner May 4 1916 – April 25 2006 was an AmericanCanadian journalist author and activist who influenced urban studies sociology and book The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961 argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of citydwellers It also introduced the sociological concepts eyes on the street and social capital
Emergence Wikipedia ~ Life is a major source of complexity and evolution is the major process behind the varying forms of life In this view evolution is the process describing the growth of complexity in the natural world and in speaking of the emergence of complex living beings and lifeforms this view refers therefore to processes of sudden changes in evolution
WOA Impacts and Carrying Capacity ~ The one process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats
Social Science History Society and Science History TimeLine ~ A time line from before writing began to the present linked to Andrew Roberts book Social Science History and to other resources
Sense of Place – The Nature of Cities ~ In general sense of place describes our relationship with places expressed in different dimensions of human life emotions biographies imagination stories and personal experiences Basso 1996
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