Urban dynamics

We attempt to understand the underlying dynamics that govern how cities grow. To such aim, we used the analogy of looking at cities as organisms, in the sense that they are complex systems that grow, changing sizes, requiring to move materials and energy across road infrastructure that facilitates different types of networks among people.

A large part of our focus is centred on how such network creates added values to the various indicators traditionally studied from economic and sociologic theory. We believe that the problem can be recasted into from and ecological approach.

See papers:

• Cities as Organisms: Allometric scaling of urban road networks. JTLU 2008
• Professional diversity and the productivity of cities. arXiv 2012
• Estudio de la Colaboraci ́on Cient ́ıfica de la regi ́on de Valpara ́ıso de Chile desde la Perspectiva de las Redes Complejas. ISCV 2012