Exploring city science

This chapter introduces and explores city science as a research practice, discourse, and possibly a research paradigm in its own right. City science is used here as a container term to refer to research that happens in, with, and for the city and which is transdisciplinary through all phases of the research process and potentially affects all phases of the policy process (Nevejan, 2018). This chapter aims to give evidence for the need to address city science as a research practice in which science, policy, and design merge in the local context of challenges that cities face in the twenty-first century with accelerating dynamics of climate change, financialization, and increasing inequalities worldwide. The focus of this exploration is on the research relations between European cities and European universities, with Amsterdam and the research into City Rhythm as case for detailed elaboration (Nevejan, Sefkatli & Cunningham, 2018)