Scale: the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
THE BIG PICTURE
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SCALING
THE SIMPLICITY, UNITY, AND COMPLEXITY OF LIFE
THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF LIFE: GROWTH, AGING, AND DEATH
FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE TO THE URBANOCENE: A PLANET DOMINATED BY CITIES
PRELUDE TO A SCIENCE OF CITIES
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CITIES
CONSEQUENCES AND PREDICTIONS: FROM MOBILITY AND THE PACE OF LIFE TO
SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY, DIVERSITY, METABOLISM, AND GROWTH
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF COMPANIES
THE VISION OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF SUSTAINABILITY
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
CONTENTS
1.
THE BIG PICTURE 1
Introduction, Overview, and Summary · We Live in an Exponentially
Expanding Socioeconomic Urbanized World · A Matter of Life and Death ·
Energy, Metabolism, and Entropy · Size Really Matters: Scaling and Nonlinear
Behavior * Scaling and Complexity: Emergence, Self-Organization, and
Resilience · You Are Your Networks: Growth from Cells to Whales ·
Cities and Global Sustainability: Innovation and Cycles of
Singularities · Companies and Businesses
2.
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS:
An Introduction to Scaling 35
From Godzilla to Galileo · Misleading Conclusions and Misconceptions of
Scale: Superman · Orders of Magnitude, Logarithms, Earthquakes, and the
Richter Scale ♦ Pumping Iron and Testing Galileo · Individual Performance
and Deviations from Scaling: The Strongest Man in the World · More
Misleading Conclusions and Misconceptions of Scale: Drug Dosages from LSD
and Elephants to Tylenol and Babies · BMI, Quetelet, the Average Man, and
Social Physics · Innovation and Limits to Growth · The Great Eastern, Wide-
Gauge Railways, and the Remarkable Isambard Kingdom Brunei · William
Froude and the Origins of Modeling Theory · Similarity and Similitude:
Dimensionless and Scale-Invariant Numbers
3.
THE SIMPLICITY, UNITY,
AND COMPLEXITY OF LIFE 79
From Quarks and Strings to Cells and Whales · Metabolic Rate and Natural
Selection · Simplicity Underlying Complexity: Kleiber s Law, Self-Similarity,
and Economies of Scale · Universality and the Magic Number Four That
Controls Life · Energy, Emergent Laws, and the Hierarchy of Life · Networks
and the Origins of Quarter՜ Power AUometric Scaling · Physics Meets
Biology: On the Nature of Theories, Models, and Explanations · Network
Principles and the Origins of AUometric Scaling · Metabolic Rate and
Circulatory Systems in Mammals, Plants, and Trees · Digression on Nikola
Tesla, Impedance Matching, and AC/DC · Back to Metabolic Rate,
Beating Hearts, and Circulatory Systems · Self-Similarity and the
Origin of the Magic Number Four · Fractals: The Mysterious
Case of the Lengthening Borders
4.
THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF LIFE:
Growth, Aging, and Death 147
The Fourth Dimension of Life · Why Aren t There Mammals the Size
of Tiny Ants? · And Why Aren t There Enormous Mammals the Size of
Godzilla? * Growth · Global Warming, the Exponential Scaling
of Temperature, and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology · Aging and Mortality
5.
FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE TO THE URBANOCENE:
A Planet Dominated by Cities 209
Living in Exponentially Expanding Universes · Cities, Urbanization,
and Global Sustainability · Digression: What Exactly Is an Exponential
Anyway? Some Cautionary Fables · The Rise of the Industrial City
and Its Discontents · Malthus, Neo-Malthusians, and the Great
Innovation Optimists · It s All Energy, Stupid
6.
PRELUDE TO A SCIENCE OF CITIES 247
Are Cities and Companies Just Very Large Organisms? · St. Jane and the Dragons
• An Aside: A Personal Experience of Garden Cities and New Town
• Intermediate Summary and Conclusion
7.
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CITIES 269
The Scaling of Cities · Cities and Social Networks · What Are These Networks?
• Cities: Christalls or Fractals? · Cities as the Great Social Incubator
• How Many Close Friends Do You Really Have? Dunbar and
His Numbers · Words and Cities · The Fractal City: Integrating
the Social with the Physical
8.
CONSEQUENCES AND PREDICTIONS:
From Mobility and the Pace of Life to Social
Connectivity, Diversity, Metabolism, and Growth 325
The Increasing Pace of Life · Life on an Accelerating Treadmill: The City as
the Incredible Shrinking Time Machine · Commuting Time and the Size of Cities
• The Increasing Pace of Walking · You Are Not Alone: Mobile Telephones
as Detectors of Human Behavior · Testing and Verifying the Theory:
Social Connectivity in Cities · The Remarkably Regular Structure of
Movement in Cities · Overperformers and Underperformers · The Structure
of Wealth, Innovation, Crime, and Resilience: The Individuality and Ranking
of Cities · Prelude to Sustainability: A Short Digression on Water · The Socioeconomic
Diversity of Business Activity in Cities · Growth and the Metabolism of Cities
9.
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF COMPANIES 379
Is Walmart a Scaled-Up Big Joe s Lumber and Google a Great Big Bear? ·
The Myth of Open-Ended Growth · The Surprising Simplicity of Company Mortality ·
Requiescant in Pace · Why Companies Die, but Cities Don t
10.
THE VISION OF A GRAND UNIFIED
THEORY OF SUSTAINABILITY 411
Accelerating Treadmills, Cycles of Innovation, and Finite Time Singularities
Afterword 427
Science for the Twenty-first Century * Transdisciplinarity, Complex Systems
and the Santa Fe Institute · Big Data: Paradigm 4.0 or Just 3.1?
Postscript and Acknowledgments 449
Notes 457
Index 465
List of Illustrations 481
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