SCRI Research Seminar on Multiscalarity in Urban Systems

Research Institute / Research Centre Seminar

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Date

14 Jun 2024
Organiser

Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute
Time

11:00 - 12:00
Venue

Room ZN607, Block Z, PolyU

Speaker

Professor Elsa Arcaute

Summary

Processes in cities create patterns that give rise to hierarchical relationships between their elements. The processes can be modulated via top-down interventions, and such interventions can be decisive for the observed outputs. Nevertheless, the scale at which these interventions are performed, are not always obvious. In this lecture we look at commuting networks, and dive into the role of diversity at different scales. Such a framework allows to identify regional characteristics, these can be defined by specialisation in economic activity, the range of skills of individuals, and the functional complementarity between cities.

Keynote Speaker

Professor Elsa Arcaute

Professor of Complexity Science Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London

Elsa Arcaute is a Professor of Complexity Science at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University and a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence). She holds a master's and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining UCL, she investigated processes of self-organisation in ant-colonies and social systems at the Complexity and Networks group at Imperial College. For the past 10 years, her research has focused on cities and urban systems in general, such as the emergence of hierarchies, the characterisation of resilience, the emergence of innovation and the modelling of coupled systems.

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