Summary
Growth, as explored in this comprehensive work by Vaclav Smil, offers a sweeping examination of how entities—ranging from the smallest microorganisms to sprawling urban megacities—expand, evolve, and transform over time. It delves into the fundamental principles governing growth across biological, ecological, and societal domains, emphasizing the interconnectedness and common patterns underlying diverse growth phenomena.
- Growth is a universal phenomenon observed in life forms, human settlements, and complex systems, governed by similar principles despite scale differences.
- Biological growth follows distinct phases, including lag, exponential, and stationary phases, which can be analogously applied to human and urban...
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