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
The Transformation of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is fast becoming an ever more powerful symbol of high tech. In the 1920s before the establishment of the Israeli state, it was famed for its rapid development in the Bauhaus style, and our predecessor at UCL Sir … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Smart Cities, Urban Dynamics
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The Israel Pollak Lectures at Technion
This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Big Data, Complexity, Emergence, LUTI models, power laws, rank size, Scaling, Smart Cities
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Michael Szell’s Review in Science
Michael Szell from the SENSEable Cities Lab at MIT has given my book a very generous review in this week’s edition of Science (28 February, Volume 343, pp. 970-971) where he suggests that my synthesis defines a way forward for … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Complexity, Geodesign, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws, Scaling, Uncategorized
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