The Urban Genome Project: An Introduction to the Science of Cities

This event will be an introduction to the work being conducted in the Urban Genome Project, which is chiefly concerned with developing and understanding a science of cities. How and why do cities emerge, coalesce, transform, and dissolve? What are the underlying recipes or routines that produce both their common structures and their local distinctness? To pursue these questions, we adapt core evolutionary concepts in which life itself is an experimental learning process. In this view, cities too are complex overlapping experiments in creating environments that sustain intense and dynamic possibilities for interaction. Our goal is to characterize these experiments, understand how they turn out, and to help cities themselves to learn from the results.

This event is open to all Faculty, Staff and Students--lunch is provided.
https://urbangenome.utoronto.ca/; RSVP to annef.james@mail.utoronto.ca .