Cities, Complexity, and Emergent Order

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Michael Batty
A short paper on key ideas that explain how patterns of urban morphology conceived in terms of networks and/or cells emerge from the bottom up and how cities restructure themselves in the same way. This tells in simple terms what this site is all about. Click here.
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Dynamics of Urban Movement

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Michael Batty
Many interesting approaches were presented at Strathclyde Complex Transport Networks meeting this week, ranging from slime mould networks to more conventional transportation geometries. Our paper using London Oyster Card data can be downloaded from presentations on this site or by clicking here.
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Smarter Cities

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Michael Batty

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Use the Player Bar above for Audio. A Webinar to the Urban Systems Collaborative organized by the IBM Smart Cities Group in Armonk, NY focusing on CASA’s work on tracking, measuring, modeling and visualizing city systems. For a glance at the Slides, read it on the Presentations section of this site. Click for Slides
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The Urban Nervous System

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Michael Batty
The focus is shifting to real time analysis of city systems with many links between urban mobility, energy and ICT. Trantopoulos, Schlapfer and Helbing suggest that the nervous system of a city be explored using ‘Techno-Social Reality Mining’. References to some of our own work on sensing the city.
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Is Digital Simulation the Same as Physical Experimentation?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Michael Batty
Simulation models test theories against data we cannot reproduce in the physical environment their theory relates to. We cannot experiment on the real thing. But how different are simulations from experiments? In Science in Age of Computer Simulation, Winsberg presents these ideas. Papers here and here.
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