Cities and methods from complexity science

Abstract

The dynamics of human society is now been studying in the context of the artificial environment created by cities. In this work, the authors describe some of the formal methods used in complexity science to study urban systems. The authors discuss some of the important quantitative approaches on cities paying attention to some of the deepest controversies in present scientific studies. The authors will stress the importance of a transdisciplinary approach when studying this type of cooperative social environments.