Luis Bettencourt

Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division

Luis Bettencourt appears in the following:

The Science of Cities

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Theoretical physicists and professors at the Santa Fe Institute, Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt, discuss their attempt to come up with the universal laws governing all cities and city life everywhere. 

Listeners: What laws do you think govern city life? Comment here!

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The Belly of the Beast

Friday, October 08, 2010

Cities, like bodies, grow and evolve.

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Cities

Friday, October 08, 2010

One tidy mathematical formula may hold the key to how cities work. We take to the streets to test the numbers, & ask what really makes cities tick.

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It's Alive?

Friday, October 08, 2010

There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's personality. But hit the streets, and you can see and feel it.

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