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Wed, May 23, 2007
Civilization Day
Posted at 8:30 pm MDT to Current Events
From James Nicholl and also mentioned on MakingLight. According to scientists, today, for the first time, more of the earth's population is urban than rural.
And research indicates that cities show sublinear scaling on resource use and superlinear scaling on creative output: that is, a city of two million people uses less than twice the resources used by a city of one million, and produces more than twice as much jobs, innovation wealth, etc.
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