CEPT AU Lecture Series: Prof Luis Bettencourt

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CEPT AU Lecture Series: An emerging Science of Cities and its Significance to Sustainable Development Speaker: Prof. Luis Bettencourt Monday 31 July 2017, 6.00pm to 7.30pm Venue: Auditorium , CEPT University Professor 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 sustainability in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious diseases and aspects of general information processing in complex systems. This work has identified several general properties of cities in terms of their built up space, infrastructure networks, innovation, economic productivity and energy use. Professor Bettencourt is the author of over 80 scientific papers and several edited books. In this talk, Professor Bettencourt argue that we now have the means and the emerging science and practice – because of spectacular progress in information technologies and a new institutional context - to create a model of planning that combines the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to generate and assess progress towards inclusive human development and economic growth. He discussed how new ubiquitous GIS technologies, collaborative mapping and new models of community organization and participatory planning can coordinate necessary information between communities and institutional actors, such as local governments, NGOs and businesses. He gives some examples from his recent work in US Cities and in urban informal settlements in India and Africa, and use these cases to illustrate current difficulties and how they can be overcome through the incorporation of new data, scientific knowledge and collaborative information technologies.

CEPT AU Lecture Series: Prof Luis Bettencourt

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CEPT AU Lecture Series: An emerging Science of Cities and its Significance to Sustainable Development Speaker: Prof. Luis Bettencourt Monday 31 July 2017, 6.00pm to 7.30pm Venue: Auditorium , CEPT University Professor 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 sustainability in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious diseases and aspects of general information processing in complex systems. This work has identified several general properties of cities in terms of their built up space, infrastructure networks, innovation, economic productivity and energy use. Professor Bettencourt is the author of over 80 scientific papers and several edited books. In this talk, Professor Bettencourt argue that we now have the means and the emerging science and practice – because of spectacular progress in information technologies and a new institutional context - to create a model of planning that combines the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to generate and assess progress towards inclusive human development and economic growth. He discussed how new ubiquitous GIS technologies, collaborative mapping and new models of community organization and participatory planning can coordinate necessary information between communities and institutional actors, such as local governments, NGOs and businesses. He gives some examples from his recent work in US Cities and in urban informal settlements in India and Africa, and use these cases to illustrate current difficulties and how they can be overcome through the incorporation of new data, scientific knowledge and collaborative information technologies.

CEPT AU Lecture Series: Prof Luis Bettencourt

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CEPT AU Lecture Series: An emerging Science of Cities and its Significance to Sustainable Development Speaker: Prof. Luis Bettencourt Monday 31 July 2017, 6.00pm to 7.30pm Venue: Auditorium , CEPT University Professor 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 sustainability in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious diseases and aspects of general information processing in complex systems. This work has identified several general properties of cities in terms of their built up space, infrastructure networks, innovation, economic productivity and energy use. Professor Bettencourt is the author of over 80 scientific papers and several edited books. In this talk, Professor Bettencourt argue that we now have the means and the emerging science and practice – because of spectacular progress in information technologies and a new institutional context - to create a model of planning that combines the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to generate and assess progress towards inclusive human development and economic growth. He discussed how new ubiquitous GIS technologies, collaborative mapping and new models of community organization and participatory planning can coordinate necessary information between communities and institutional actors, such as local governments, NGOs and businesses. He gives some examples from his recent work in US Cities and in urban informal settlements in India and Africa, and use these cases to illustrate current difficulties and how they can be overcome through the incorporation of new data, scientific knowledge and collaborative information technologies.