Theories Of Urbanization By Geoffreyrey West

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND

Geoffrey West talked about the expansion of urbanization at a very fast rate and projected that by the next 50 years the planet will be dominated by cities.

West pointed out the negative and positive aspects of the urbanization. On the negative aspect, West said that cities are the source and beginning of global warming, pollution, diseases, financial and economic problems, energy shortages etc. The challenge of sustainability also originates from the very fast urbanization across the planet. Accordingly, in the 1800s, the urban population of the United States only accounts to less than 4%; in the year 2006, more than 50% of the world’s population was believed to be urbanized; while it is projected that by the year

It’s the first time that I came across a theory that compares urbanization with biology. All indicators of cities and organisms that West presented seems to look pretty the same, they all follow a sublinear path when plotted in the graph. The mere thought of the idea presented by West made me believe again that out-of-the-box thinking is genius thinking. In reality, the idea of West seems to be true. Wherever we apply it, we will always end up following the destined 15% rule. At some point, our works will become obsolete, our ideas will render itself useless, and anything that we can think of will become old and will eventually fade if we will not innovate and think of new ideas for us to sustain and continuously enjoy the success of everything we create. West have made a lot of researches in order to come up with this theory, he has presented a tremendous amount of data and analysed it to support his claims on the cities life cycle and interventions to save it from collapsing. Overall, this is a well done research and I admire Geoffrey West and his colleagues for coming up for a beautifully crafted

First, both life and cities are dominated by non-linear (universal) ¼ - power scaling; Second, they both observe an extraordinary economies of scale (the bigger you are, the less you need per capita); third, the pace of life systematically slows with increasing size; fourth, growth is sigmoidal reaching a stable size at maturity; and lastly, both life and cites depends on Networks.

All humans die, all cities and companies are destined to collapse and die. But with the result of this theory we can now save the cities and companies from resorting to its natural death. The answer is innovation. When we grow companies and cities, we should not stop thinking of new ideas and approaches so that we can prevent them from collapsing and we can sustain growth and progress.

Development management works on the same platform as the theory of Geoffrey West. Development Managers create ways to continuously improve our lives by sustainability improving all factors that makes us live and survive. But our innovations in development will soon fade and die, but before it happens we should continuously educate and push ourselves to create new innovations and have it ready for deployment when we reach that peak of