Guardian: Luis M A Bettencourt, professor of complex systems, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA. @BettencourtLuis
Cities must be allowed to evolve: Technology can help a lot, but cities are not like machines to be engineered and controlled through big data feeds. Cities must be allowed to change and evolve, and such a process is not one of simple engineering optimisation, especially when looking at development issues. There are very few consistent studies on how settlements evolve over time, and there is...