Today we're joined by Luis Bettencourt, Professor at the University of Chicago, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Luis is going to pull apart how cities work, why they work the way they do, what's good about them, and what's bad about them. He's also going to talk specifically about slums, and the challenges that exist in raising people out of poverty.

Resources and links:

• Simplifying Complexity - Scaling 1: Why do we live longer than mice?
• Simplifying Complexity - Scaling 2: You and I are fractals
• Simplifying Complexity - Scaling 3: Why companies die, but cities don't

Connect:

• Simplifying Complexity on Twitter
• Sean Brady on Twitter
• Sean Brady on LinkedIn
• Brady Heywood website