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Towards a Science of Cities| old_uid | 14000 |
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| title | Towards a Science of Cities |
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| start_date | 2014/05/20 |
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| schedule | 15h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 5 |
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| summary | There are always more data about cities and urban systems. This is unprecedented in our history and opens the exciting possibility of a 'Science of Cities', with the aim of understanding and modeling phenomena taking place in the City. Urban morphology and morphogenesis, activity and residence location choice, urban sprawling and the evolution of urban networks, are just a few of the important processes that are discussed for a long time but that we now hope to understand quantitatively. Now is the time to participate to the first steps towards quantitative urbanism, and in this talk I will present some efforts in this direction. In particular, I will present some recent results on (i) how to understand and model scaling properties of cities and (ii) what are the main properties of evolving urban road networks. These two examples will illustrate the fact that understanding an object as complex as a city is necessarily interdisciplinary: we will need to build up on early studies in quantitative geography and spatial economics, on the knowledge of architects, urbanists and urban sociologists, and on the tools of geomatics together with modeling approaches coming from applied mathematics and statistical physics. |
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| responsibles | Berestycki, Nadal, Rosenstiehl |
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