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

Lidia Morawska; Wendy Miller; Matt Riley; Sotiris Vardoulakis; Yong-Guan Zhu; Guy B. Marks; Prachi Garnawat; Prashant Kumar; Marie Thynell

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11972-6

Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

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

Lidia Morawska,
Wendy Miller,
Matt Riley,
Sotiris Vardoulakis,
Yong-Guan Zhu,
Guy B. Marks,
Prachi Garnawat,
Prashant Kumar,
Marie Thynell

Affiliations

Lidia Morawska: Queensland University of Technology, International Laboratory for Air Quality & Health (ILAQH)
Wendy Miller: Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty
Matt Riley: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW OEH), Climate and Atmospheric Science
Sotiris Vardoulakis: Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)
Yong-Guan Zhu: Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Science
Guy B. Marks: South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales
Prachi Garnawat: RMIT University
Prashant Kumar: Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey
Marie Thynell: University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11972-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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