Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Author Archives: Michael Batty
Visualising Ranks and Size in Space and Time
Alluvial diagrams were first proposed to represent changes in network structure over time. Robin Edwards from CASA has implemented the tool and has several examples from social and political arrays which he shows in his blog GeoTheory. Rosvall and Bergstrom’s popularisation of … Continue reading
Posted in city size, clocks, Complexity, Flows, rank size, Scaling, Uncategorized
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At the Crossroads of Urban Growth
A spectre is haunting urban growth relating to how development is financed. My current editorial in Environment and Planning B (December 2014, issue 6) discusses the increasing disconnect between demand and supply of new buildings using the example of Wuhan … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Economies of scale, Smart Cities
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Virtuální Geografická Prostředí
Well I don’t know what it means either. But if you read Czech you should be off to a flying start, and the Czech guy who translated it assures me that all of Eastern Europe read Czech so there you … Continue reading
Posted in Geodesign, Information, Smart Cities
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