Understand the City

ComplexCity Lab is an interdisciplinary sino-french joint research laboratory. It aims to study the city, and to a greater extent, urban systems. We are taking an innovative approach which combines the analytical and computational capabilities of engineering sciences with the openness and creativeness of humanities and social sciences.

Complex Urban System

We consider the city as a complex system composed of a very large number of heterogeneous, dynamic, constantly mutative entities in non-linear interaction with each other at various scales. Exploring and analyzing this system leads us to technological, organizational and social innovations to enhance today's cities and help design the cities of tomorrow.

Lab News

March 2015 — New live data capture campaign on weibo with raspberry farm

June 2015 — ComplexCity next Big Data WorkShop in Paris (Stay Tune)

July 27-28 - Conference on Smart Sustainable City and Big Data (with SHU)

January 2016 — Complexcity in Rochebrune Conference - Qu'est ce que les données ? (Stay Tune)

Complex City Science

ComplexCity hosts 14 interdisciplinary and international research projects on cities. In addition to these projects we are developing a conceptual framework based on data science aimed at creating a science of cities.

1Data — Sense, Store, Compute

We gather data with a dedicated secure 24/7 capture platform using various techniques such as traditional datasets integration, web data scraping, web services api calls
We store in cloud services, HPC ready heterogeneous storage platform & raw text files for our researchers and partners maximum flexibility and efficiency
We value people’s skills and people's based collaboration over tools

2Science(s) — Modelization, Simulation, Visualization

We create a methodology to analyze complex systems such as cities
We use latest development in data science (machine learning, visualization, serious gaming, simulation, etc.)
We unify complex systems theories to make them powerful together

3Studies — Culture, Mobility, Energy, Urbanism, Health

We provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary environment to our researchers and help them to explore and extract knowledge from data
We develop solutions for cities, government, citizens and industries with our partners