Guest : Geoffrey West, Sante Fe Institute May 22 2011

Can cities be understood as organisms governed by laws of scale similar to those that condition the growth of biological beings? And if so, how can knowledge of critical relationships between variables such as population, innovation, disease and consumption help influence urban planning in a world where rapid urbanization can either make or break sustainable development?

Think Globally Radio this week speaks to Prof. Geoffrey West, the former head of the Sante Fe Institute who was in Stockholm to participate in the Global Symposium. Prof. West is a renowned physicist who later in his career published ground-breaking research in biology and then began applying rigorous scientific methods for examining how cities function. Be sure to tune into Think Globally Radio to hear one of the more original and brilliant thinkers on sustainability share his ideas.

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