Cities: Building the best cities for science

Building an Ontology Catalogue for Smart Cities

Apart from providing semantics and reasoning power to data, ontologies enable and facilitate interoperability across heterogeneous systems or environments. A good practice when developing ontologies is to reuse as much knowledge as possible in order to increase interoperability by reducing heterogeneity across models and to reduce development effort. Ontology registries, indexes and catalogues ...

Qualitative scenario building for post - carbon cities

Which Are the “Best” Cities for Psychology Research Worldwide?

We present scientometric results about worldwide centers of excellence in psychology. Based on Web of Science data, scientific excellence can be identified for cities from where highly-cited papers originate. Data refer to all psychology articles published in 2007 which are documented in the Social Science Citation Index and to their citation frequencies from 2007 to May 2011. 218 cities are vi...

Sustainability science: the emerging paradigm and the ecology of cities

Humans are a true force of nature and human actions have taken their place alongside the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere as defining processes shaping the global landscape (Ellis & Haff, 2009). Much like forecasting the weather and trends in the economy, the interactions of humans and complex ecosystems (such as a food web in a tropical rainforest) are fraught with complexit...

The Information Architecture of Cities the Information Architecture of Cities

Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems. Here, ‘architecture’ is used in the sense of computer architecture – it refers not to the design of buildings, but to how the components of a complex system interact. Information exchange includes the movement of people and goods, personal contact and interactions, telecommunications, as well as visual input from the environment. Informa...