Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies / Geoffrey West.
| Author/creator | West, Geoffrey B. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Penguin Press, 2017. |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The big picture -- The measure of all things: an introduction to scaling -- The simplicity, unity, and complexity of life -- The fourth dimension of life: growth, aging, and death -- From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: a planet dominated by cities -- Prelude to a science of cities -- Toward a science of cities -- Consequences and predictions: from mobility and the pace of life to social connectivity, diversity, metabolism, and growth -- Toward a science of companies -- The vision of a grand unified theory of sustainability. |
| Abstract | "Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other... West's work has been gaming changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability...and applied...[it] to the business and social world."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-464) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: West, Geoffrey B. Scale. New York : Penguin Press, [2018] 9781101621509 |
| LCCN | 2016056756 |
| ISBN | 9781594205583 |
| ISBN | 1594205582 hardcover |