City Science - by Ramon Gras & Jeremy Burke (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book showcases cutting-edge research on city form revealing that urban design features--such as topology, morphology, entropy and scale--have massive implications to the quality of life for a city's residents.

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 innovation economies to design Innovation Districts, social networks and patterns to help form organization patterns, and city topology, morphology, entropy and scale, to create 15 Minute Cities, are some of the frameworks presented in this volume.

Therefore, urban designers, architects and engineers will be able to successfully tackle complex urban design challenges by using the authors' frameworks and findings in their own work. Case studies help to present key insights from advanced, data-driven geospatial analyses of cities around the world in an illustrative manner. This inaugural book by Aretian Urban Analytics and Design will give readers a new set of tools to learn from, expand, and develop for the healthy growth of cities and regions around the world.

Review Quotes

"In sum, City Science: Performance Follows Form is an essential read for those interested in the future of urbanism, and I do not hesitate to say that it is one of the most important books on cities of 2024.

Ultimately, Gras and Burke provide a rigorous, evidence-based perspective on how cities function, offering practical insights to inform better decision-making in urban development--laying the groundwork for a new paradigm in city planning that prioritizes livability, efficiency, and inclusivity."
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"This large format (8 x 1.5 x 9.75 inches, 3.53 pounds) hardcover edition of "City Science: Performance Follows Form" from Actar D is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, governmental, and college/university library collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists, and featuring a four page Atlas of Global Cities and an extended Bibliography, "City Science: Performance Follows Form" is a seminal and exceptional study that will prove of immense value to readers with an interest in Architectural Criticism, Materials, City Planning and Urban Development." --Midwest Book Review