Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
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Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
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Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#2Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. My model fits better with Superorganism. Now, let me write a paper and invent words to rival your "eukarcity" and "cityplasm".
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#3I will have to read this. My hope is when i do read there is some stuff in about exploitation. I tend to see exploitative systems kind of like cancer. Many exploitative systems can exist in cities. I wonder if they have made space in the study for studying exploitative practices and reconcentration over time of the products of public effort and how much the networks produced and reproduced end up actually benefiting society, or how much more society could benefit (with different amounts of exploitation) if the system was reorganized in different ways.
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#4Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. My model fits better with Superorganism. Now, let me write a paper and invent words to rival your "eukarcity" and "cityplasm".
Your work should cause you to cruise through tenure review.
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#5So more like cancer?
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#6Tokyo is an example of a "multicellural" city, with its Special Wards each functioning as a separate city with only some services shared among them.
The wards each have a population of a few hundred thousand people, and some take top spots in the list of biggest cities in Japan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan
The city has been run like this for decades, and it seems to work out for Tokyo pretty well.
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#7Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. My model fits better with Superorganism. Now, let me write a paper and invent words to rival your "eukarcity" and "cityplasm".
okay dr dshiv, what about cytoskeletons, microtubules, filaments, and their associated proteins such as dynein?
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#8Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. My model fits better with Superorganism. Now, let me write a paper and invent words to rival your "eukarcity" and "cityplasm".
okay dr dshiv, what about cytoskeletons, microtubules, filaments, and their associated proteins such as dynein? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_transport
Those are building-level infrastructure. Girders, pneumatic tubes, elevators, staircases, segways ...
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#9Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. My model fits better with Superorganism. Now, let me write a paper and invent words to rival your "eukarcity" and "cityplasm".
okay dr dshiv, what about cytoskeletons, microtubules, filaments, and their associated proteins such as dynein? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_transport
I love intracellular transport videos like this. I want to see them set to Philip Glass:
https://youtu.be/5dVIAISw68U
https://youtu.be/6aMq6dZkMyQ
Re: Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
#10Tokyo is an example of a "multicellural" city, with its Special Wards each functioning as a separate city with only some services shared among them. The wards each have a population of a few hundred thousand people, and some take top spots in the list of biggest cities in Japan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan The city has been run like this for decades, and it seems to work out for Tokyo pret…
The Dallas Fort-Worth Metroplex is similar. Separate cities that have grown into each other (conurbation) yet retain separate counties and governance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metr...