Bad thing Quote by Geoffrey West

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

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where…

— Chris Abani

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

— Geoffrey West

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

— James Gleick

In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking…

— George Carlin

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles…

— Geoffrey West

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our…

— Mohsin Hamid

“TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CITIES”

— Geoffrey West

“There is an unseen dynamic world in and around us that scientists have only just started to scratch its surface. It is a massive…

— Claudys Kantara

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love,…

— Alice Walker

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West