Towards Urbanome the genome of the city to enhance the form and function of future cities.

Morawska, Lidia; Miller, Wendy; Riley, Matt; Vardoulakis, Sotiris; Zhu, Yong-Guan; Marks, Guy B; Garnawat, Prachi; Kumar, Prashant et al. · Nat Commun · 2019

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Abstract

The health of the city depends on how well all the elements of this system are interconnected and operating in harmony. Here the authors introduced the concept of urbanome which is analogous to the human genome that can be used to characterise the form and functioning of cities.

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