The Fourth Industrial Revolution is profoundly changing our cities with a series of disruptive technologies, characterized for the boom of Internet industries and the everyday application and wide integration of intelligent technologies. Individuals' traditional mechanical thinking has changed into a mindset based on big data, whose cognition also relies more and more on a combination of both virtual and physical reality experience. At the same time, cities, where we live, are witnessing a significant revolution in resource utilization, societal conditions, and spatial use. Along with the surge of new technologies and new data represented by computer technologies and multi-source urban data, the (new) Urban Science, as a transdisciplinary combination of urban computing, Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction, rises over the past decade. Research institutions and programs on the (new) Urban Science are flourishing globally, and increasing related degree programs and courses are offered by colleges and universities worldwide to respond to the needs of this new era.%以互联网产业化和工业智能化为标志、以技术融合为主要特征的第四次工业革命正以一系列颠覆性技术深刻地影响和改变着我们的城市:人们的思维方式从传统的机械思维向大数据思维转换,认知方式也逐渐向虚实结合的体验过渡,而我们赖以生存的城市,其资源利用、社会状况和空间利用也正经历着一系列变革.随着以计算机技术和多源城市数据为代表的新技术和新数据的迅猛发展,(新)城市科学在过去的十几年间逐渐兴起,成为一门融合了城市计算、人工智能、增强现实、人机交互等方向的交叉学科,为城市研究和城市规划设计带来了变革可能.目前全球范围内已涌现了多家聚焦于该领域的研究机构和多个研究项目.同时,世界各大院校也先后设置与(新)城市科学相关的学位、开设相关课程,培养更加符合新时代需求的新城市研究人才.
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