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

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

Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 5;10(1):4014. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11972-6.

Authors

Lidia Morawska^{1

2

3}, Wendy Miller⁴, Matt Riley⁵, Sotiris Vardoulakis⁶, Yong-Guan Zhu⁷, Guy B Marks^{8

9}, Prachi Garnawat¹⁰, Prashant Kumar¹¹, Marie Thynell¹²

Affiliations

¹ Queensland University of Technology, International Laboratory for Air Quality & Health (ILAQH), Brisbane, QLD, Australia. l.morawska@qut.edu.au.
² Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. l.morawska@qut.edu.au.
³ Queensland University of Technology, Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Brisbane, QLD, Australia. l.morawska@qut.edu.au.
⁴ Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁵ NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW OEH), Climate and Atmospheric Science, Sydney, Australia.
⁶ Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), Edinburgh, UK.
⁷ Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Science, Xiamen, China.
⁸ South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁹ Woolcock Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁰ RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
¹¹ Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK.
¹² University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, Göteborg, Sweden.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

Cities
Environment*
Forecasting
Genome*
Humans
Social Sciences
Sustainable Development*