Deljana Iossifova Cities are complex adaptive systems, combining spatiotemporal and behavioural structures that are affected by and affect individual and collective agents. Newly available urban data sets carry potential for the development of methods for an…
Michael Batty Our ESRC project with the University of Sao Paulo and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), launched on 26-27 November in Sao Paulo at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, aims to map the impacts of…
Vanesa Castán Broto With over 70% of the population thought to be living in urban areas by 2050, environmental challenges are necessarily urbanisation challenges too. Promoting urban energy transition to ensure cleaner, more sustainable sources of…
Jonathan Bright NEXUS: Real Time Data Fusion and Network Analysis for Urban Systems is an exciting new project launched by the Oxford Internet Institute in September 2015. One of the key aims of our project is…
Henry Overman Henry Overman is Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. Set up in September 2013, the programme has focused on developing a comprehensive evidence base on the effectiveness of…
David Satterthwaite In 2015, sub-Saharan Africa’s urban population reached 396 million. This was distributed among thousands of urban centres that included two mega-cities (with more than 10 million inhabitants), as well as three cities with populations…
Alex Lord Reports in the national press would suggest that urban planning in the UK is less than popular. Variously described as glacial, associated with Communism and decried as a brake on development, political figures have…
By Antonia Layard Bristol’s Festival of the Future City, held from 17-20th of November 2015, was an incredible success. The quirky highlights included Will Self leading a walking tour around the city, armed with umbrella, urging…
Greater Manchester has enjoyed plenty of attention recently thanks to its ability to secure a landmark devolution deal with the Chancellor, which is in turn helping to pave the way for devolution to other city and…
As I travel around the country talking to practitioners I’m asked a lot of questions. The one that comes up most frequently is: ‘So, what works?’ Perhaps unsurprising given the name of the Centre but also,…
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