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Why Cities Keeping Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster

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From edge.org - October 4, 2012 6:03 PM

Wonderful interview with Geoffrey West - high energy phycisist and former president of the SantaFe Institute. This one reflects neatly a lot fo what we work on at Complex Insight: "..as a scientist, can we take these ideas and do what we did in biology, at least based on networks and other ideas, and put this into a quantitative, mathematizable, predictive theory, so that we can understand the birth and death of companies, how that stimulates the economy? How it's related to cities? How does it affect global sustainability and have a predictive framework for an idealized system, so that we can understand how to deal with it and avoid it? If you're running a bigger company, you can recognize what the metrics are that are driving you to mortality, and possibly put it off, and hopefully even avoid it." Clic on the image or the title to learn more.

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It's time to redesign our economic system

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From www.guardian.co.uk - November 22, 2012 8:55 AM

John Fullerton asks what it will take for mainstream economists and financial theorists to understand the vital connection between economics and ecosystem. Click on the image or title to learn more.

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Cities: Drivers of Sustainable Human Development & Prosperity

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From new.usgbc.org - November 16, 2012 7:21 PM

As we plan for the future of our planet, it is imperative that we consider the effects of development on both the environment and human populations. A city is only truly sustainable if it uses natural resources efficiently while still fully meeting the needs of its inhabitants and a decent standard of living.

Recently, the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) launched its “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013” which addresses the prosperity of cities. According to the report, the first step to achieving prosperity is to define the goal: What does prosperity mean in 2012? This is a difficult question to answer given the vast disparity of living conditions throughout the world. Additionally, it is imperative that the definition of prosperity today consider the needs of future generations. To this end, UN-Habitat developed a “City Prosperity Index,” which translates the five dimensions of prosperity identified by UN-Habitiat—productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, environmental sustainability—into measurable indicators (see page 15 of the report).

 

This definition of the prosperous city is consistent with the principles of a smart, sustainable and just city... further reading at the article link


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