this was an epsrc-funded project i was briefly involved with towards the end of my phd.
the project itself was a network hub focusing on risk and resilience in complex egineering systems. the project vision was to identify, develop and disseminate new methods to improve the resilience and sustainable long-term performance of complex engineered systems, including cities. these strike a balance between the challenges and opportunities that the UK was/is facing for which complexity science may provide insights. you can find out more about what they did including their white papers here.
References
papers
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On the Development Logic of City-Regions: Inter- versus Intra-City Mobility in England and Wales
Spatial Economic Analysis, 2019
This paper combines an allometric urban model with a hierarchical clustering method in order to investigate the effects of distance and spatial scale on the geography of transport-led agglomerative strategies implemented to address comparative regional economic underperformance. The study is undertaken in the context of the urban system in England and Wales by constructing agglomerated city-regions using city units defined at different spatial scales. As is shown, a greater importance than is currently given lies in local and intra-city mobility as compared with longer distance transport schemes promoted using agglomeration theory principles. This signals a need for prioritization of mobility improvements at smaller intra-urban distances coupled with long-term densification efforts as integral to the performance of longer distance inter-city pairings.