New Draft: Living in Living Cities

This paper presents and overview of current and potential applications of living technology to urban problems. Living technology can be described as technology that exhibits the core features of living systems. These features can be useful to solve dynamic problems. In particular, urban problems concerning mobility, logistics, telecommunications, governance, safety, sustainability, and society and culture are presented, while solutions involving living technology are reviewed. Finally, the usefulness of describing cities as living systems is discussed.

Gershenson, C. (2011). Living in Living Cities. C3 Report 2011.09. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3659

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Carlos said…
A new version of this paper was just uploaded at the same arXiv location.

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