The angiogenic growth of cities
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A model of the growth of London and Sydney shows that cities develop in a similar way to biological systems - the study has been featured by The Telegraph, The Guardian, and others.
In our latest study we show that the urbanization process consists of an initial phase of limited growth around the city centre, followed by the development of transport networks and a consequential shift from central to suburban living. These dynamics are similar to tumor angiogenesis where cancer cells grow locally and then spread and continue to grow via a proliferation of new blood vessels.
Read the news on The Telegraph and The Guardian.
The Branco Weiss Fellowship - Society in Science
Capel-Timms I, Levinson D, Lahoorpoor B, Bonetti S, Manoli G (2024), The angiogenic growth of cities, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 21, 20230657. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0657