If you're serious about this, you need Geoffrey West, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine

If you're serious about this, you need Geoffrey West, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_West http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/directory/ http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/directory/ Alberto Hernando de Castro, and https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S_ad8ycAAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S_ad8ycAAAAJ&hl=en maybe Franz-Josef Ulm http://www.citymetric.com/%E2%80%9Curban-physicists%E2%80%9D-are-claiming-cities-are-molecules http://www.citymetric.com/%E2%80%9Curban-physicists%E2%80%9D... https://cee.mit.edu/ulm https://cee.mit.edu/ulm And I don't know who's been doing Chinese planning, but they've obviously had some experience building cities that never became populated.