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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Why innovation thrives in cities:

Double a city's population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. Not only does total productivity increase with increased population, but so does per-capita productivity. In the latest issue of Nature Communications, researchers from the MIT Media Laboratory's Human Dynamics Lab propose a new explanation for that "superlinear scaling": Increases in urban population density give residents greater opportunity for face-to-face interaction.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/why-innovation- thrives-in-cities-0604.html [mit.edu]

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130604/ncomms296 1/full/ncomms2961.html [nature.com] (pay walled)

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