A whopping 64 percent of Australians live in our state capitals alone. For this weekâs panel Janne Ryan takes us in-the-field to a kitchen bench in the city of Brisbane where a group of thoughtful people gathered together to discuss the problems and challenges of urbanisation.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bydesign/the-panel3a-living-in-the-city/4134232
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Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities — that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city’s population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.
http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_of_cities_and_corporations.html
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