![]() That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much power you need just to lie down. A human being at rest runs on 90 watts.Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill." A Physicist Solves the City," in Dec 17, 2010. It’s even more amazing that we can find them. I’ve always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. ![]() " Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities." Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 104(17), 7301–7306. M., Lobo, J., Helbing, D., Kühnert, C., & West, G. ![]() The inexorable trend toward urbanization worldwide presents an urgent challenge for developing a predictive, quantitative theory of urban organization and sustainable development Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also its main source of crime, pollution, and disease.
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