Scaling in Human Societies

Several urban design methodologies are suggested to reduce the amount of automobile traffic in cities. These proposals have significant environmental, health, and eonomic implications, with the latter not generally well understood. [Read More]

“Polycentricity” refers to an urban design pattern in which there are several separate centers of employment and commerce, and not a single dominant center. The monocentric standard urban model, also known as the Alonso-Muth-Mills model, holds that cities development around a single core, known as the central business district. Although... [Read More]

How does the functioning of a business change as it grows? What factors determine the sizes of businesses that we see today? There are two theoretical extremes for the distribution of business sizes. One is that all businesses are sole proprietorships, which might arise if there were no advantage to... [Read More]

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This article is Version 2. Version 1 can be found here. [Read More]