An overview of city analytics

Higham, Desmond J. and Batty, Michael and Bettencourt, Luís M A and Greetham, Danica Vukadinović and Grindrod, Peter (2017) An overview of city analytics. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (2). 161063. ISSN 2054-5703 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.161063)

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Abstract

We introduce the 14 articles in the Royal Society Open Science themed issue on City Analytics. To provide a high-level, strategic, overview, we summarize the topics addressed and the analytical tools deployed.We then give amore detailed account of the individual contributions. Our overall aims are (i) to highlight exciting advances in this emerging, interdisciplinary field, (ii) to encourage further activity and (iii) to emphasize the variety of new, public-domain, datasets that are available to researchers.