Book presentation: City Science: Performance Follows Form (Actar Publishers, 2023)

The Aretian team, a spin o­ff company from the Harvard Innovation Lab, has developed a city science methodology to evaluate the relationship between city form and urban performance. This book illuminates the relationship between a city’s spatial design and quality of life it a­ffords for the general population. By measuring urbanization efficiencies, innovation economies to design Innovation Districts, and the dynamism of social networks, the authors can extract the key ingredients and dynamics that help shape successful economic development patterns, and high-quality urban design guidelines involving city topology, morphology, entropy, fractality, and scale to create 15 Minute Cities.

City Science: Performance Follows Form presents 100 global city profiles, and establishes the foundation for a city science theory and methodology, aiming to provide a rigorous, scientific, evidence-based global analytical process by which urban designers and leaders can provide urban diagnostics and global benchmarks, identify strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities, define urban development goals, and inform city design and economic development decision-making processes, thus contributing to raising the level of understanding of urban phenomena, as well as the quality of the architectural fabrics that make up the built environment.

Readers will discover guidelines for fostering and preserving successful knowledge economy ecosystems. This book is a valuable read for 21st-century policy makers, urban planners, and designers. It serves citizens well as they attempt to understand how to champion sustainable development goals. The detailed data of the book are:

City Science: Performance Follows Form (Actar, 2023)

Authors: Ramon Gras & Jeremy Burke
Contributors: Fernando Yu, Gauthier de la Ville-Baugé, Céleste Richard
Foreword by Prof. Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University Senior Lecturer, previously Executive Dean for Education and Research at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

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Speaker: Ramon Gras Alomà (Aretian - Urban Analytics and Design, Harvard Innovation Lab; Harvard University)

Sponsors: RCCHU; Aretian-Urban Analytics and Design; Harvard University