Santa Fe Institute

An article in The Guardian about ways to build sustainable cities offers advice from several experts, beginning with SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt.

The city is no longer just a place but a living field of information to be harvested, according to an article that cites early work at SFI to see if Kleiber's Law helped describe cities.

Cities have been compared to everything from beehives to river networks, but most of these metaphors fall short. SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt looks to the data to suggest a new way of thinking about how cities function and grow.

In delivering the 2013 Pardee Distinguished Lecture at Boston University, SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West described how the rapid pace of urbanization is likely to both bring challenges and prompt innovative solutions.

In a cover paper in the June 20 issue of Science, SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt offers a unified, quantitative framework for understanding how cities function and grow.

A new multimedia exhibit at the Santa Fe Children's Museum gives kids a glimpse of what SFI scientists are learning about cities.

SFI’s interactive science magazine, the SFI Bulletin, is now live. Our first issue of 2013, "States of Complexity," explores the increasing complexity of human society.

A feature in the May issue of Smithsonian reviews the birth at SFI of the growing field of "quantitative urbanism" and its progress toward an improved theoretical, mathematical understanding of cities.

The Atlantic's Emily Badger asks whether mathematical scaling relationships found in past SFI research can be extended to natural space, such as parks and tree cover.

In revisiting whether the productivity of cities is linked most directly to city size or population density, Forbes contributor Joel Kotkin cites SFI research.