Luís Miguel Almeida Bettencourt
Inaugural Director – The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, The University of Chicago
Professor – Ecology & Evolution, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago
Associate Faculty and Special Friend of Sociology – Sociology, Social Sciences Division, The University of Chicago
External Professor – Sante Fe Institute
Mailing Address:
1155 E. 60th St., Room 118
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Phone : (773) 834-4676
Email: bettencourt at uchicago dot edu
Twitter: @BettencourtLuis
Assistant: Heidi Lee ehlee at uchicago dot edu
Cities and Urbanization
Real Time Epidemiology
Evolution and Structure of Science and Technology
Statistical Mechanics, Evolution and Information
The Origins of Scaling in Cities
The Impact of Changing Technology on the Evolution of Informational Complex Networks
Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society
The Pre-History of Urban Scaling
The Scaling of Human Interactions with City Size
A Unified Theory of Urban Living
Make it bigger ! Science for the Age of Digital Science Technologies – SSRC, September 2016
Mass Urbanization Could Lead to Unprecedented Human Creativity- But Only if We Do it Right – Huffington Post, August 2014
The Uses of Big Data in Cities – Big Data, March 2014
Envision 2050: The Future of Cities – Ensia, June 2014
Future Megacities and the Fate of Millions – Aspen Ideas Festival, June 2014