Recent Selected Media Coverage:
2021
How do cities impact mental health? A new study finds lower rates of depression UChicago News
Living in the big city may help fight depression The Times London
How the Pandemic Is Still Ruining Our Plans Axios
The Bigger the City, the Lower the Depression Rates? US News
Las tasas de depresión son más bajas cuanto más grande es la ciudad El Confidencial
2020
The city will survive covid19 Newsday
COVID 2025: How COVID-19 will challenge and change cities, with Luis Bettencourt UChicago News
This is one key metric Utah should track as the state considers easing coronavirus restrictions The Salt Lake Tribune
Coronavirus Attack Rate Increases With City Size. How Should Large Cities Respond? SciTech Daily
Why isn’t California’s coronavirus crisis as bad as New York’s? Size doesn’t tell the whole story The Globe and Mail
Map Reveals Hidden U.S. Hotspots of Coronavirus Infection Scientific American
Covid-19 spreads much faster in big cities Futurity: Research News
Coronavirus is hitting larger cities harder. How should they respond? UChicago News
State-level data misses growing coronavirus hot spots in U.S., including in the South UChicago News
Mapping Tech Could Formalize Settlements for One Billion People Next City
The Metric We Need to Manage COVID-19 Systrom
The physics that set out to study a million neighborhoods to improve cities El País
Uber and Lyft Are Convenient, Competitive and Highly Carbon Intensive Inside Climate News
Act Locally, Learn Globally: Luis Bettencourt on Building from the Community Up TheCityFix
Concern mounts over new Lagos physical planning, building control regulations The Guardian Nigeria
2019
Mapping Fast-growing Informal Settlements in Africa GIM International
African slum map exposes true scale of urban poverty Reuters
Big Brains Podcast Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt (Ep. 34) UChicago News
In fight against global poverty, researchers map fast-growing informal settlements in Africa UChicago News
UChicago and UN to host global symposium on sustainable cities and neighborhoods UChicago News
Urban October at University of Chicago to Focus on Urgent Challenges Facing Global Cities PR Newswire
The Evolution of the Galápagos The College News
On Cities Workshop 2019 – Public Debates Norman Foster Foundation
The Fabric of Our Lives Siam News
Science and Culture: Can the principles of topology help improve the world’s slums? PNAS
Why a 1925 book is still relevant to urban sociology UChicago News
Bettencourt to Deliver Buthman Lecture March 28 Hendrix College News
The Excruciating, Impossible Science of Airport Delays Wired
From the Technician to the world. It is in physics that a new generation of Portuguese geniuses is born dn_insider
2018
How mapping the Galápagos could create more sustainable cities UChicago News
Math Helps Sprawling Cities Grow Sustainably And Reduce Slum Conditions Forbes
Scientists develop tools to bring infrastructure to slums UChicago News
Mansueto Institute Seminar: Juval Potugali Dialogo
Here Are 5 Predictions for the Future of Our Cities Brink News
The Future of Urban Innovation Apple Podcasts
Podcast: Science combines with data to reveal complexity of cities UChicago News
The circular economy could save life on Earth – starting with our cities World Economic Forum
The Math Behind a Localized Approach to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Next City
2017
The city is not a massive machine, says Luis Bettencourt LiveMint
Why Even the Hyperloop Probably Wouldn’t Change Your Commute Time NY Times
Luis Bettencourt named inaugural director of Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation UChicago News
The New Urban Science The Chronical of Higher Education
Understanding Our Cities, Thanks To Beautiful Maps Forbes
Canada needs a fuller house to thrive – but population growth isn’t enough The Globe and Mail
2016
Y Combinator’s Plan to Build a New City? Not Actually Crazy Wired
The Relationships Between Skyscrapers and Great Cities City Lab
Urban Transit’s Uncertain Future Nova
These Cities Could Lead the Driverless Car Revolution Fortune
Policy: Urban physics Nature
Medieval cities not so different from modern European cities, according to study Phys Org
What might Jane Jacobs say about smart cities? The Conversation
Applied Mathematics To Design The Perfect Future City WorldCrunch
2015
A Planet of Cities Christian Science Monitor
Ancient and modern cities aren’t so different EurekAlert!
As World Crowds In, Cities Become Digital Laboratories Wall Street Journal
History Repeats Itself: Ancient Cities Grew Much Like Modern Ones Live Science
Creating an Equation for Cities May Solve Ecological Conundrums The Smithsonian Magazine
The Typical Lifespan of a Business, According to Science BAI
This is how long your business will last, according to science Fortune
Follow Friday: The Secrets of How Cities Work Wired
2014
What Ancient Aztecs Shared with Modern New Yorkers Time
What Is a City? The Atlantic
Is Civilization Natural? NPR
Ancient settlements and modern cities follow same rules of development Science Daily
Easy Solutions to S.F.’s Housing Crisis? Beware Unintended Consequences San Francisco Public Press
Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building More Inclusive Cities to Lift the Urban Poor World Bank News
Suicide rates drop in big cities Science News
Proposed Philly Ban Would Impact One-Third of Neighborhood’s Businesses Next City
What a 1967 Government Pamphlet Predicted About the Future of U.S. Cities Next City
2013
Scientific Proof that Cities are like Nothing Else in Nature City Lab
Life in the City is Essentially one Giant Math Problem Smithsonian
Solar and wind innovation reflected in booming patents USA Today
Scientists Looking to Solve the Problem of Slums Devise a New Way to Look at Big Data TXchnologist
Cities are a new kind of complex system: Part social reactor, part network Science Daily
The city triumphs, again The Economist
A Mathematical Guide to the World’s Most Livable Cities Scientific American
Cities Grow And Behave As Coherent Entities Inside Science
All That ‘Anonymous’ Cell Phone Data Tracking Can Actually Identify You Business Insider
Innovative Cities Superlinear and Progressive Net News Ledger
2012
The laws of the city The Economist
Sustainability in the new urban age BBC
Gigalopolises: Urban Land Area May Triple by 2030 Scientific American
2011
Too Hard for Science? Simulating the human brain Scientific American
Collaboration: the mother of invention Boston Globe
It’s biology: all cities are alike Sydney Morning Herald
2010
A Physicist Solves The City NY TImes
A unified theory of urban living Nature
2009
Math and the City The New York Times Map of Knowledge The New York Times
Knowledge, in Real Time SEED Magazine
Web usage data outline map of knowledge Nature News
A New Picture of the Two Cultures SEED Magazine
Map of Science Looks Like Milky Way Wired Science
Why the future of humanity and the long-term sustainability of the planet are inextricably linked to the fate of our cities. SEED Magazine
How the Crash Will Reshape America The Atlantic
User Clickstreams Lead To A ‘Map Of Science’ Science 2.0
2008
Computer just might reveal the secrets of the brain Santa Fe New Mexican
Scientists examine new way to track outbreaks Santa Fe New Mexican
Modeling the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields U.S. Department of Energy: Office of Scientific and Technical Information
2007
To escape flu – move to the country Telegraph.co.uk
The urban organism Nature News and Views
If You Can Make it There: Cities Are the Greatest Generators of Innovation and Wealth Scientific American
Big cities need a fast-paced life to grow Nature News
Innovation and Growth: Size Matters Breakthrough Ideas for 2007: Harvard Business Review
Ideas: the lifeblood of cities New Scientist
The Living City: A new science applies metabolism to the metropolis SEED Magazine