AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
city growth, galaxies, spread of deseases
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Henry Lin and Abraham Loeb at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge.
WEBSITE
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534251/astrophysicists-prove-that-cities-on-earth-grow-in-the-same-way-as-galaxies-in-space/
unified theory of urban evolution
Astrophysicists prove that cities on earth grow in the same way as galaxies in space.
The way galaxies evolve from variations in matter density in the early universe is mathematically equivalent to the way cities grow from changes in population density on Earth, say cosmologists.
