Urban complexity lab

Complexity Theory and the Mathematics Lab-Classroom

The main thesis of a recent article by Davis and Simmt (2003) is that " mathematics classes are adaptive and self-organizing complex systems ". This thesis is intriguing. It helps explain a phenomenon teachers often witness—the spontaneous emergence of a special learning community in a particular class. And it raises the question—if this thesis applies to all mathematics classes how do the addi...

Learning by doing as mobile with a Urban Computing Lab

For years the most significant feedback from hypermedia students in Tampere University of Technology (TUT) had noted a lack of examples from real-life situations, even if teachers had used cases from real hypermedia projects as theoretical learning materials. In response to feedback the Urban Computing Lab (UCL) was designed and implemented at the Hypermedia Laboratory in TUT in purpose to supp...

The BuildZoom & Urban Economics Lab Index Technical Document

The BuildZoom & Urban Economics Lab index is a joint endeavor of BuildZoom and the Urban Economics Laboratory of the MIT Center for Real Estate. The set of indices leverages BuildZoom’s repository of building permit data to track residential permitting activity, and was developed jointly with Professor Albert Saiz of the Center for Real Estate at MIT. Separate indices track permitting for const...

Modeling Urban Mobility for E-Governance with Low Energy Complexity

In this paper we design some characteristics of a possible E-governance system for the urban mobility. In particular we shortly present the complex city features and the background automata gas paradigm for a microscopic modeling. Moreover we show some statistical laws based on long time series of traffic dynamics data, fundamental for the now-casting and the private vehicles mobility control. ...

What can complexity theory tell us about urban planning?