论文标题
现代城市浮现为“超级细胞”，其中封闭的工业系统是商品和服务的热点
Modern cities emerge as 'super-cells' where enclosed industrial systems are hotspots of goods and services
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论文摘要
盛行的假设将城市视为“超生物”，这两者都为城市提供了组织原则，并填补了生态系统与整个星球之间的层次生活系统的标量差距。但是，生物体和城市特征之间的大多数类比都是不合适的，这使得超生物模型不切实际地成为获取新知识的一种手段。使用对15个城市和其他生活系统特征的聚类分析，我们发现现代城市与真核细胞更相似，而不是与多细胞生物。封闭的工业系统（例如工厂和温室）主导了现代城市，并且类似于细胞器，就像提供高速燃料商品和服务的热点。因此，我们提出的“超细胞城市模型”比超级生物模型更合适。除了理论意义之外，我们的模型还将封闭的工业系统视为改善城市活力和可持续性的功能组成部分。
Prevailing hypotheses recognize cities as 'super-organisms' which both provides organizing principles for cities and fills the scalar gap in the hierarchical living system between ecosystems and the entire planet. However, most analogies between the traits of organisms and cities are inappropriate making the super-organism model impractical as a means to acquire new knowledge. Using a cluster analysis of 15 traits of cities and other living systems, we found that modern cities are more similar to eukaryotic cells than to multicellular organisms. Enclosed industrial systems, such as factories and greenhouses, dominate modern cities and are analogous to organelles as hotspots that provide high-flux goods and services. Therefore, we propose a 'super-cell city model' as more appropriate than the super-organism model. In addition to the theoretical significance, our model also recognizes enclosed industrial systems as functional components that improve the vitality and sustainability of cities.
