Cities as Anticipatory Systems

Salomón González-Arellano is an architect and holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, Universidad Laval, Quebec, Canada. He is currently a research professor in the Department of Social Sciences at UAM Unidad Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. He is a founding member of the Laboratorio de Análisis Socioterritorial and a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores since 2006. Dr. Salomón has been a master's and doctoral thesis advisor on issues of segregation, urban form, public space, mobility, urban food systems, and recently on space time urban analysis and anticipatory urban systems. His research addresses topics such as urban morphology, segregation, accessibility, and mobility. He is also a specialist in spatio-temporal representation and analysis, especially in relation to the differentiation of urban space in Mexico, and methods for decision making from the perspective of Territorial Intelligence.

Bruno Gandlgruber is a professor for Economics at the Department of Institutional Studies at the Cuajimalpa Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. His current academic activities are related to the comparative institutional analysis of development processes, particularly the emergence and transformation of economic models and the role of informality and firm governance in economic development. He has been invited as a visiting scholar to Ruhr-University Bochum, Passau University, Turkish-German University (Istanbul, Turkey), and Technical University Berlin (Campus El Gouna, Egypt). As a consultant for the ECLAC/UN, he has developed projects on market governance in Central America. His research has been published by Palgrave and other international publishers and reviews. He is also an associate editor of the newly founded Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. Recently, Bruno Gandlgruber is in charge of the UNESCO Chair in Future Studies, anticipation and urban lifestyles in the global south.