A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues
ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings …

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow
faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

Human mobility impacts many aspects of a city, from its spatial structure,–to its response to
an epidemic,,–. It is also ultimately key to social interactions, innovation, and productivity …

Urban climate is determined by a variety of factors, whose knowledge can help to attenuate
heat stress in the context of ongoing urbanization and climate change. We study the …

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with
inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been. In a landmark analysis of the …

The availability of massive digital traces of human whereabouts has offered a series of novel
insights on the quantitative patterns characterizing human mobility. In particular, numerous …

Many of the insights of economics seem to be qualitative, with many fewer reliable
quantitative laws. However a series of power laws in economics do count as true and …

With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and
understand the structure and dynamics of cities is becoming increasingly valuable …

The canopy layer urban heat island (UHI) effect, as manifested by elevated near-surface air
temperatures in urban areas, exposes urban dwellers to additional heat stress in many …

Cities can be characterized and modelled through different urban measures. Consistency
within these observables is crucial in order to advance towards a science of cities …