An Emerging Science and Cities and its significance for Sustainable Development - Luis Bettencourt (Video)
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Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.
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Luis Bettencourt is a leading researcher in urban science and has worked extensively on cities and urbanization. His research emphasizes the creation of new interdisciplinary synthesis to describe cities in quantitative and predictive ways, informed by the growing availability of empirical data worldwide. His research interests also include the modeling of innovation and sustaining in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious disease and aspects of general information processing in complex systems. This work has identified several general properties of cities in terms of their build up space, infrastructure networks, innovation, economic productivity and energy use. Professor Bettencourt is the author of over 80 scientific papers and several edited books. The Mansueto Insititute for Urban Innovations aims to bring together programs in the social, natural and computational sciences and in the humanities to enhance the University's strengths in urban scholarship and education. Professor Bettencourt leads the Mansueto Institute in supporting innovative urban research projects while providing rigorous training for the next generation of urban scholars and practitioners.