The ongoing Global Change is challenging our understanding of the dynamics involved in the ecological, social, and infrastructural realms surrounding us. Most of these changes have an urban origin and a deep impact on cities, the living place of most humans. While technological advances allow us to obtain near real-time information of these complex dynamics, a complete understanding, capable of giving us prospective usage, requires an integrated view from multiple disciplines. 

This new version of URBANICS seeks to imprint such spirit on our academic conversations. We look forward to a workshop that integrates modeling approaches from all realms to understand and explain urban dynamics and thereby develop the next generation of urban planning and policies from the small to the large and even the global scale.  

Luis Bettencourt  Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago

Catherine Morency Professor at Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering Polythechninque, Montreal. Canada

José Javier Ramasco  Staff Reseacher at Insitute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems Mallorca, Spain

Paul Waddell  Professor of City & Regional Planning Berkeley, University of California

Abstract Submission Deadline September 16, 2019   Notification of Acceptance October 21, 2019   Venue Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile

Organizing Committee Ricardo Hurtubia, Chair Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Horacio Samaniego, Co-Chair Universidad Austral de Chile Francisco Martínez, Past-Chair Universidad de Chile Marcela Munizaga Universidad de Chile Karla Jaramillo, ISCI www.urbanics.cl ORGANIZER                                    HOST INSTITUTION        SPONSOR INSTITUTIONS