Join Chicago Studies and Luís Bettencourt, Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation for his presentation on The Data-Driven City. This lecture will discuss using cities’ abundant empirical data to inform a more sustainable future in Chicago and beyond. This presentation is a part of our Chicago Futures series, a lecture series focused on imagining the future of Chicago through turbulent times. Register via Zoom.
Luís M. A. Bettencourt is the Inaugural Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, as well as an External Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. He has worked extensively on complex systems theory and on cities and urbanization, in particular. His research emphasizes the creation of new interdisciplinary synthesis to describe cities in quantitative and predictive ways, informed by classical theory from various disciplines and the growing availability of empirical data worldwide.