Session on Week 8

Reading

• “The Kind of a Problem a City Is” by Luís Bettencourt (pdf). Chapter in Die Stadt entschlüsseln, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti (2013).

Questions to discuss:

• How do you compare this view of cities with the other texts we have read so far?
• Relevance of urban planning over history (marked by technology)
• The Complex Systems approach to cities