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Equation 5 · Part 1 · Cities Are Organisms That Refuse to Die: Urban Evolution to 2100

Symbol β

β≈0.85\beta \approx 0.85
β\beta

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where β\beta ≈\approx 1.15 for the socioeconomic quantities and β\beta ≈\approx 0.85 for the infrastructural ones. A city twice the size of another does not simply have twice the patents and twice the roads; it tends to have somewhat more than twice the patents and somewhat less than twice the road surface.…

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