Category Archives: Allometry

The Laws of the City

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Michael Batty

A deluge of data makes cities laboratories for those seeking to run them better. Nice summary from Ludwig Siegele in this week’s Economist, online version I think. Merging smart cities and new scaling laws. And reference to the forthcoming meeting … Continue reading →

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Crowds, Congestion and Extreme Events

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Michael Batty

My talk at CPGIS this morning is about how we might use all our new flow data to build new models to explore how city systems fail. This is more a talk about what we would like to do, rather … Continue reading →

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The City as a Scalable Network

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Michael Batty

Geoff West of the Santa Fe Institute talks about scaling, networks and cities, emphasizing  that cities scale more than proportionately with respect to creative pursuits,  inventions, patents, specialist services and  income. Watch the video on YouTube.

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The City Size Debate Goes on Forever

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Michael Batty

Brian Berry has followed up his Cities as Systems within Systems of Cities paper published in 1964 in the Papers & Proceedings of the Regional Science Association with a great review of the city size debate in  Current Research in … Continue reading →

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Complexity in Regional Science: The Alonso Lecture

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Michael Batty

Here is my lecture given at the North American Regional Science Association Annual Conference in Miami, 11th Nov 2011. It is as good a summary as I can muster of complexity theory applied to cities & regions. I focus on … Continue reading →

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