We study cities as systems in which interaction, information, scaling, and material organisation come together to sustain collective life.
This axis explores how cities help coordinate action, manage entropy and uncertainty, and generate complex social and economic effects across scales. It combines conceptual work, empirical analysis, and simulation to understand how urban systems hold together, evolve, and sometimes undermine their own conditions of reproduction.
5.1. Cities as information & cooperation systems
5.2. Cities against entropy: managing complexity and disorder
5.3. Urban scaling and complexity