Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:14 am
#1906379
I'm a bit baffled but will admit to only having skimmed the precis. Cities, or any human settlement, don't rise and fall through entropy, quite the opposite. They are meticulously planned (micro level) to take advantage of any number of resources.
Grids (macro level) are irrelevant really but they seem to be giving weighting to that (see the formulae) in spite of recognising the obvious evidence that some of the worlds most successful and longstanding cities have anything but, as per the graphic. No doubt that London, Barcelona and Rome will be thriving long after Las Vegas returns to dust.
There seems to be a bias for seeking order, or perhaps I have completely missed the point or simply don't understand entropy - does anyone really?
But my biggest question is just what and who is this paper actually for! Come on @stevelup help me out here, I feel a bit thick.