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Nature 446, 869 (19 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446869a; Published online 18 April 2007

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Social science: The urban organism

Richard Webb

Visitors to the area around Nature's London offices will be familiar with the scene: unending traffic and noise; the hurly-burly of the Underground; streets, concourses and platforms filled with people intent only on reaching their destination quickly. It's received wisdom that the bigger a city is, the faster life moves; Luis Bettencourt and colleagues supply some empirical evidence to back up that perception (Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA

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