Quote by Geoffrey West

“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

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

— Jaime Lerner

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure…

— Martin Filler

“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

“So in marked contrast to infrastructure, which scales sublinearly with population size, socioeconomic quantities—the very essence of a city—scale superlinearly, thereby manifesting systematic increasing…

— Geoffrey West

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

— Paul Goldberger

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's…

— Geoffrey West

“cities feel disjointed and complex—they can be read as layers recording change over time as traces,”

— Wade Graham

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad