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Before I talk about that, 谈到这之前 I've written down at the bottom there 我在底下标出了 the slope of this curve, this straight line. 这条曲线的斜率，即这条直线 It's three-quarters, roughly, 大约为3比4 which is less than one — and we call that sublinear. 小于1,呈“次线性” And here's the point of that. 这里有一点值得注意 It says that, if it were linear, 当最...
So here's two questions 每当我思考这个问题 that I have in my head when I think about this problem. 两个疑问一直在我脑子里打转 The first is: 第一 Are cities part of biology? 城市是生物界的一部分吗 Is London a great big whale? 伦敦是一只大鲸鱼吗 Is Edinburgh a horse? 爱丁堡是一匹马吗 Is Microsoft a great big anthill? 微软是一座巨型蚁山吗 What do we learn from that? 我们从...
Cities are the crucible of civilization. 城市是文明的熔炉 They have been expanding, 它们一直在扩张 urbanization has been expanding, 城市化的扩张速度 at an exponential rate in the last 200 years 在过去的200年里变得越来越快 so that by the second part of this century, 到了本世纪下半叶 the planet will be completely dominated 整个地球都将被城市 by cities. 所主宰 Cities are the or...
It goes up by 15 percent, 对于所有事物都是如此 and you have a 15 percent savings 你还能节省 on the infrastructure. 15%的基础设施经费 This, no doubt, is the reason 这无疑就是 why a million people a week are gathering in cities. 城市每周新增一百万人口的原因 Because they think that all those wonderful things — 他们觉得那些美好的事物 like creative people, wealth, income &#...