Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt

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In the last decade, there has been a mass migration of people into urban areas. This rapid urbanization has been increasingly unsustainable for our cities and it’s projected to get worse in the next decade. University of Chicago scholar Luis Bettencourt is tackling this global crisis by researching the underlying processes that dictate our cities. If you can understand the numbers, you can create models for the sustainable cities our planet needs. He’s starting by mapping a million neighborhoods.