CITIES AND DYNAMICS OF NETWORKS
CITADYNE is a way of approaching the cities as sets of complex interacting dynamic networks of people, built and natural environment, technologies, objects, ideas, institutions, and norms. The main issue we address is how cities evolve according to these networks and how multi-level processes and mechanisms from bottom-up and top-down emerge. In these processes, what are the freedom degrees of people to change their conditions of living and which collective movements can happen in certain places at certain times?
The CITADYNE researchers approach this question in all topics on cities in the world economic dynamics , or in urban health issues with an evolutionary cities’ systems approach including multi-level complex systems approach. We use scientific methods, such as analytics and visualizations of networks, Agent Based Models, Machine Learning tools. They are all based on robust database with a high attention on the comparative definition of cities each time adapted to the questions at stake.
We are based at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
