Many activities of the KLI exceed the scientific core agenda and are intended to engage with either the public or with alumni and friends of the KLI. Some representative acitivities are listed here.
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Urban Evo-Devo transfers knowledge from evolutionary developmental biology to urban morphology. We pioneer a new science of urban form evolution, by drawing from current theories of biological and cultural evolution (Pagel, 2009, 2012) as well as systems ecology (Holling & Goldberg, 1971). We build on concepts from evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), which offers a rich source of explanations for the individual development and collective evolution of complex systems.
Urban Evo-Devo builds on the largest existing dataset of a taxonomy of urban form, which describes and classifies numerically 100+M buildings in central Europe, by applying on them modelling techniques established in evolutionary biology to infer descent from similarity.
