Scientific Conference: Reinventing the City 2024

Blueprints for messy cities?

The highlights of the Scientific Conference Reinventing the City, organised by AMS Institute from 23-25 April 2024, are documented in this collection.

In this second edition of “Reinventing the City”, the overarching theme is ‘Blueprints for messy cities? Navigating the interplay of order and complexity'. The AMS Scientific Conference (AMS Conference) explores and discusses how cities can transform themselves to become more liveable, resilient and sustainable, while offering economic stability. Cities are innovation hubs, where an increasing number of people live, work, recreate, interact, and care. The urban fabric is where major transitions take place, catalyzing advancements in mobility, circularity, renewable energy, climate adaptation, urban food systems and digitization. Precisely for these reasons, our cities set the agenda for improving the livability and sustainability of our world.

To foster improved urban environments, we need scientific and societal insights into our complex urban systems, into how natural and social processes are interconnected and reach tipping points, into the good, the bad and the ugly of our cities. We need amazing discoveries, technical and social innovations to transform the ugly, leave the bad behind and reach for the good. And most of all, we need to make the city together, because WE are the city.

In three captivating days, we will explore
Day 1: ‘The good, the bad, and the ugly’
Day 2: ‘Amazing discoveries’
Day 3: ‘We are the city’