The other day I have been looking at some of the large cities and countries. I'm a medicine student and if you have had the change for a deep study of the human body, you'll notice that humans and cities are quite similar.
A Country is the human body. Cities are like organs. They have similarities, but each one has got a special function/strength (industrial, financial, agricultural). Houses and building are like cells. Roads are like vessels. People and different products are like proteins, electrolytes, and chemical components. People channel in roads, they go by foot but also by car (different chemical components has car-like proteins to drive them in blood).
Let's get into a cell. It has different components: Wall, Mitochondria, kernel, ribosome... A house has similar things. It has a wall like the cell has, with openings which aren't just holes (doors in the house and special kind of proteins in the cell).
I really can't describe that clearly, due to my poor English and also to the complexity of the idea. I hope you get the idea and you try to expand it.
Another interesting point is how they both started. The city (in the dark ages) was very simple, and now has progressed. The same way for the human which started from a cell that has multiplied and become a fully functioning animal.
Now cities don't start from 0, just like human. It doesn't need another billion year for a human to be created, but only 9 months, which is the same in the city.
I hope you get the idea, sorry for the bad release.
Don't harsh on this. Analogical reasoning is where scientific theories come from. Well, perhaps from there and from elegant math.
I thought it was a very interesting metaphor, and you can start thinking of diseases of the national infrastructure, or the infrastructure of the body.
Science shouldn't stop at metaphor, sure. But it often starts there! Think about concepts from fluid dynamics that leaked into electromagnetism.
A Country is the human body. Cities are like organs. They have similarities, but each one has got a special function/strength (industrial, financial, agricultural). Houses and building are like cells. Roads are like vessels. People and different products are like proteins, electrolytes, and chemical components. People channel in roads, they go by foot but also by car (different chemical components has car-like proteins to drive them in blood).
Let's get into a cell. It has different components: Wall, Mitochondria, kernel, ribosome... A house has similar things. It has a wall like the cell has, with openings which aren't just holes (doors in the house and special kind of proteins in the cell).
I really can't describe that clearly, due to my poor English and also to the complexity of the idea. I hope you get the idea and you try to expand it.
Another interesting point is how they both started. The city (in the dark ages) was very simple, and now has progressed. The same way for the human which started from a cell that has multiplied and become a fully functioning animal.
Now cities don't start from 0, just like human. It doesn't need another billion year for a human to be created, but only 9 months, which is the same in the city.
I hope you get the idea, sorry for the bad release.