Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“So small changes in the ambient temperature over relatively short periods of time that are not sufficiently long for adaptive processes to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular,… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“None of these systems, whether “natural” or man-made, can operate without a continuous supply of energy and resources that have to be… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“From a scientific perspective the truly revolutionary character of the Industrial Revolution was the dramatic change from an open system where energy… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The integration of these two kinds of networks, namely, the requirement that socioeconomic interaction represented by space-filling fractal-like social networks must be anchored to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
