{"id":118,"date":"2009-05-21T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-05-21T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:09:34","slug":"118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/118\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: Cities Are More Efficient and Theoretical Math Proves It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/judson.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Olivia Judson&#8217;s column in the NYT<\/a>. It is always fascinating, a good humanistic look at science. That is to say, there is something more there than science for science&#8217;s sake. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judson.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/19\/math-and-the-city\/?em\"> Today&#8217;s <\/a>column is particularly interesting (by a guest columnist), especially for the urban geographers among us. Even theoretical mathematics verifies it: Cities are just more energy efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities are more energy efficient. Math proves it. See Zipf&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,11,4],"tags":[48,1322,50,49,51,47],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-energy-efficient-places","category-places-that-dont-suck","category-society","tag-distribution-of-cities","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-olivia-judson","tag-steven-strogaz","tag-urban-geography","tag-zipfs-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}