Nature dedicates a special in which it collects different articles and interactive data visualization works on the relations between science and the urban world. It includes some worthwhile articles such as:
- Cities: The urban equation< /a>, the presentation of the different contents of the special.
- Looking at the best cities for science (interactive graph): contains a graph that relates different cities with the number of scientific publications in the period 2000-2008 and how Beijing stands out, among others, as a new urban center of scientific production. There is also another visualization on Google Earth also of scientific production.
- Paris plans science in the suburbs , about plans for the construction in France of a major scientific complex in Paris (Paris-Saclay).
- Cities: The century of the city, an article that presents where the main urban centers of scientific production are located in different regions of the world and, on the other hand, the greatest challenges faced by the scientific community in relation to the problems caused by the urban functioning in an increasingly urbanized world.
- Cities: Building the best cities for science, an article that reviews a fundamental question to understand the logic of global economic development, that related to how to generate urban environments of opportunity for scientific development.
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