138I_Luis Natera, software developer and geospatial network scientist

Are you interested cities as beautiful monsters? What do you think about consciously choosing your city to live? How can be our procrastination regarding climate change a good thing? Interview with Luis Natera, a software developer and geospatial network scientist. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban improvements, car electrification pros and cons, urban choices, and many more. Dr. Luis Natera is an architect-network scientist focusing on understanding cities from the complex system perspective. He earned a Bachelor in Architecture and Master in Communication of Science and Culture at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Guadalajara, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Network Science from the Department of Network and Data Science at the Central European University. He was a visiting research fellow at Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luis has experience working in the private and public sectors. His academic research interest revolves around urban mobility in multiplex urban networks, bridging urban planning and complex systems. Luis currently works as a software developer focusing in Climate Tech. On his free time he enjoys writing a newsletter about cities and technology. You can find out more about Luis through these links: Luis Natera on LinkedIn; @natera as Luis Natera on Twitter; Luis Natera website; Luis Natera newsletter subscription; Luis Natera on Instagram; Luis Natera at CEU; Luis Natera at ANETLAB; Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.048 - Interview with Professor Hussein Dia about urban mobility; No.137R - Quantifying life quality as walkability on urban networks; No.147 - Interview with Damian Hewitt about importance of autonomous vehicles; What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay