Being Interdisciplinary: Adventures in Urban Science and Beyond. This item is unavailable.Being Interdisciplinary: Adventures in Urban Science and Beyond

Alan Wilson draws on five decades as a leading figure in urban science to set out a systems approach to interdisciplinary research. Building from this approach, it offers some general principles for interdisciplinarity and a framework for constructing a personal research toolkit that fosters ambitious and creative research.

Alan Wilson is Director, Special Projects at The Alan Turing Institute, and was its founding Chief Executive. His background lies in mathematics and theoretical physics. He converted to geography and the social sciences and for over five decades, his research has centred on the science of cities and regions, and the application of that science in urban planning. He has held appointments in Oxford, Leeds and UCL, and has been a university vice-chancellor. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society and was knighted in 2001 for services to higher education.