"The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science."

"Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now living in cities. Cities ha…"

"I’ve always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It’s amazing that such rules exist. It’s even more amazi…"

"Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requ…"

"A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gathe…"

"The good news is cities are extraordinarily resilient. The bad news is that they are also very hard to change."

"You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - with…"

"Cities are the crucible of civilization."

"It’s hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company."

"Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don’t make…"