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Complexity and All Things Like That

More on Urban Science

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Michael Batty

Social physics, scaling, urban informatics, energy in cities are all elements of a science of cities. The recent article by Solecki, Seto, and Marcotullio ‘It’s Time for an Urbanization Science’ in the magazine Environment develops yet another notion of what … Continue reading →

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The Dangermond Lecture

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Michael Batty

Today/this date I give/gave the Dangermond Lecture at University of California Santa Barbara on Explaining the Dynamics of City Size. Here is the PDF and there is a post on the CASA web site with more links to related work, … Continue reading →

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Urban Transformations and Urban Structure

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Michael Batty

Check out Luc D’Acci’s Blog. He has some very interesting projects on mega cities and the internal structure of cities which blends lots of ideas from economics and complexity theory with spatial structures and patterns. Some papers are downloadable

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CAMUSS: Cellular Automata Modelling for Urban Spatial Systems

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Michael Batty

This interesting meeting is being held in Oporto, Portugal and involves a reassessment of progress and problems in this field of simulation. I am giving the keynote at 2-30pm November 8th -19th and the pdf of my power point can … Continue reading →

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About CA Modelling

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Michael Batty

Amin Tayyebi, a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University, asked me to make a short (<5 minute) movie about Cellular Automata Modelling so that he could put it into a series about … Continue reading →

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