Vinicius M. Netto is a Principal Researcher at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, University of Porto, Portugal (CITTA | FEUP). He received a PhD in Advanced Architectural Studies from the The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) and was a Visiting scholar at the Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University (CUSP NYU, 2019-2020). Vinicius M. Netto is interested in cities as networks involving information, cooperation, and segregation. His academic journey began with a focus on segregation, during which he proposed the concept of dynamic segregation in people’s daily movement and activities while pursuing his MPhil degree in 1999. Later, he worked on a theory that examined the relationship between meaning, architectural and urban space and communication and how this affects the creation of social action systems. Netto’s research then led him to collaborate on a method that differentiates the effects of architecture from other urban features, such as street networks, on the social life of streets and neighbourhoods. His current research concentrates on understanding how humans collectively battle entropy by encoding information in cities as cooperation systems. He is the author of The Social Fabric of Cities (Routledge) and over 100 articles and chapters, including in journals such as Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Built Environment, Cybergeo, PLoS One, Complexity and Entropy. Vinicius has authored or co-edited four books published in Brazil. He is an associate editor for Area Development and Policy (ADP), a journal of the Regional Studies Association (RSA, UK), a former Editor-in-Chief for Revista de Morfologia Urbana (Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology | PNUM), and a member of the editorial board of journals such as the International Journal of Urban Informatics. “My research explores theoretical gaps and absences, particularly those concerning overlooked and subtle aspects of social reproduction, even in widely recognised problems like segregation. My approach frequently pursues threads beyond observation: elusive entities as ‘candidates for existence’ embedded in contingent and non-contingent relationships, which must be reconstructed by imagination, abstraction and new empirical methods, particularly computational ones.” * Personal website: https://cityscience.group/vinicius-m-netto/