Cities 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 - from…

— Geoffrey West

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

— Robert Smithson

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

— 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

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

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

“The two dominant components that constitute a city, its physical infrastructure and its socioeconomic activity, can both be conceptualized as approximately self-similar fractal-like network…

— Geoffrey West

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

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

— Neal Shusterman

“TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CITIES”

— Geoffrey West

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine

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

— Jaime Lerner