Group research is organized around six themes:

Cities are perhaps humanity’s greatest achievement.  For thousands of years, they have been the engines of innovation, cultural progress, and economic opportunity.  Urban areas are responsible for 90% of global wealth creation, but also the source of 70% of global CO2 emissions. The greatest challenges of our era–from global warming to jobs in an uncertain economic future–are best addressed in cities. 

Our mission is to empower communities, guide decision-making, and support the evolution of more livable, entrepreneurial, and sustainable communities.

At the City Science Group, we believe the future of human flourishing depends on reimagining how cities are designed and managed by deploying the innovations of our era—AI-powered governance, behavioral simulation, generative design, robotics, and real-time data analytics—to build new models of urban transformation.

The City Science research journey began with prototyping advanced systems: shared-use mobility, transformable housing, and tangible decision tools. It evolved into easy-to-understand simulation platforms that quantify the impact of urban interventions. Today, our work increasingly focuses on something even more fundamental: building dynamic governance systems with feedback loops and adaptive incentives to enable consensus building and responsive, pro-social development.