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Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson sometimes writes things and sometimes designs things. He is a former project associate of Urban Omnibus and lives in Brooklyn.

Against a Notion of Urban Science

Physicist Geoffrey West purports that in the few short years he has been studying urbanism he has solved the “problem” that is the city. But perhaps never before has the search for a totalizing “urban science” been more inappropriate.

Eric Peterson • Jan 19, 2011