You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that c… - Geoffrey West

It’s hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.

Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people now living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also its main source of crime, pollution, and disease. The inexorable trend toward urbanization worldwide presents an urgent challenge for developing a predictive, quantitative theory of urban organization and sustainable development

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.