Luis Bettencourt

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University of Chicago

United States

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Professor Luis Bettencourt is a faculty member at the University of Chicago, specializing in urban studies and economic growth. His recent research includes topics on urban inequalities, infrastructure deficits in sub-Saharan Africa, and the conceptual challenges of urban digital twins. He also explores the dynamics of human mobility and its impact on urban environments, with a focus on diversity and accessibility in U.S. cities.

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C. Folke

Stockholm University

SWEDEN

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James Evans

University of Chicago

UNITED STATES

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Shade T. Shutters

Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

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Vanesa Castan Broto

University College London

UNITED KINGDOM

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Marc Berman

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University of Chicago

UNITED STATES

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Christopher Boone

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Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

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SCOTT ORTMAN

University of Colorado Boulder

UNITED STATES

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Diane E. Pataki

UNITED STATES

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Hallie Eakin

UNITED STATES

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Rimjhim Aggarwal

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Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

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Esteban Moro

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

SPAIN

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Michael Batty

University College London

UNITED KINGDOM

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Jianguo Wu

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Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

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Articles (20)

Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa

Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities

Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province

Recent achievements and conceptual challenges for urban digital twins

Insights/Opinion: Emerging Scientific Frameworks and Tools for Sustainable Cities

Implicit racial biases are lower in more populous more diverse and less segregated US cities

Information synergy maximizes the growth rate of heterogeneous groups

Transport Costs and Economic Change in Roman Britain

Defining a city — delineating urban areas using cell-phone data

Counterfactual mobility network embedding reveals prevalent accessibility gaps in U.S. cities

Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action

Learning increases growth and reduces inequality in shared noisy environments

Measuring health and human development in cities and neighborhoods in the United States

Statistical dynamics of wealth inequality in stochastic models of growth

Reply to Huth et al.: Cities are defined by their spatially aggregated socioeconomic networks

A convergence research perspective on graduate education for sustainable urban systems science

epimargin: A Toolkit for Epidemiological Estimation, Prediction, and Policy Evaluation

Evidence and theory for lower rates of depression in larger US urban areas

Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene

Worldwide Detection of Informal Settlements via Topological Analysis of Crowdsourced Digital Maps

Collaborators (13)

C. Folke

James Evans

Shade T. Shutters

Vanesa Castan Broto

Marc Berman

Christopher Boone

SCOTT ORTMAN

Diane E. Pataki

Hallie Eakin

Rimjhim Aggarwal

Esteban Moro

Michael Batty

Jianguo Wu

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