Living in Living Cities

This article presents an overview of current and potential applications of living technology to some 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, and solutions involving living technology are reviewed. A methodology for developing living technology is mentioned, and supraoptimal public transportation systems are used as a case study to illustrate the benefits of urban living technology. Finally, the usefulness of describing cities as living systems is discussed.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Artificial Life

• Publication date

  2011-11-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Environmental Science, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1162/ARTL_a_00112arXiv 1111.3659PMID 23834590
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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