The proposed research agenda for the project focuses on three interconnected areas:

1. Developing a comparative framework between urban and biological genotype-phenotype maps (GPMs) to identify universal properties and system-specific characteristics

2. Creating computational models to investigate how cultural evolution shapes urban morphological variation, with particular attention to the interaction between cultural and physical evolution

3. Implementing novel computational methods to analyze and model urban evolutionary dynamics, validated against real-world data

This research includes conducting morphometric analysis of urban form and exploring potential phylogenetic relationships between urban form taxa.

The development of computational models allows for making very specific hypotheses about how urban morphology and organization can change, gaining insight into their variational properties, and thus in how they might evolve within different selection pressures or cultural contexts. This systematic approach, combined with the detailed information available for different cities and urban contexts, provides an excellent framework for validating our models and their potential predictions on morphological changes.