Urban science seeks to understand the fundamental processes that drive, shape and sustain cities and urbanization. It is a multi/transdisciplinary approach involving concepts, methods and research from the social, natural, engineering and computational sciences, along with the humanities. This...

This is a report on the discussions held during an NSF SUS conference “Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science”. The conference was motivated by the call made by the NSF for...

As cities grow in size and density, why do some “ignite” into global engines of innovation while others evolve instead into slums? To address this question we develop a view of urban development as an analogy to stellar evolution. Typical stellar gas clouds grow in mass, eventually reaching...