Category Archives: Complex Systems

Complexity and All Things Like That

The Urban Morphology Lab

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Michael Batty

Someone from ETH Zurich Future Cities Lab showed me a fascinating book by Serge Salat called Cities and Forms (Hermann Editions, Paris, 2011). Haven’t managed to get it (ugh! French Publishers!) but downloaded his paper “Systemic Resilience of Complex Urban Systems: … Continue reading →

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Complexity, Waste, Cities

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Michael Batty

Singapore World Cities Summit, Singapore WasteMetAsia sessions, today. Talking on how complexity theory can be used to think about waste in cities – of course it can be used to think about anything in cities, but here are some improvised … Continue reading →

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Peter Hall’s 80th Birthday Symposium

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Michael Batty

Today and tomorrow (June 26-27)  in the Darwin Lecture Theatre at UCL, there is a celebration of Peter’s work: Peter Hall and the Planning Imagination. Here’s the program. Here is my own contribution on complexity and planning.

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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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