WHY
CITIES SUCCEED In «Bigger Cities Do More with Less,» Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high - rent city allows only greatly value - adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a cycle in which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.&
CITIES SUCCEED In «Bigger
Cities Do More with Less,» Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high - rent city allows only greatly value - adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a cycle in which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.&
Cities Do More with Less,» Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high - rent
city allows only greatly
value - adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a
cycle in which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.»
The inner -
city kids going nowhere from broken and dysfunctional families would learn self - discipline and other
values necessary for success in life, breaking the intergenerational
cycle of hopelessness, and some of the lefty kids might become a tad bit more patriotic... or at least not so hateful of our military.
In Women on Wheels I considered bike sharing to be
city cycling's «gateway goodness,» i.e. a super effective method that eases the biking uninitiated into the pleasures and practical
value of biking in
cities.