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
Smart Cities
This is the first book on ‘smart cities’. It is a deep and thoughtful critique, as well as an absorbing and personal account. Anthony Townsend tells us how computers and their software and services are being embedded into cities, how we … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Complexity, Emergence, Information, Smart Cities
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Applied Urban Modelling
Read our editorial in the current issue of Transactions in GIS about “Applied Urban Modeling: New Types of Spatial Data Provide a Catalyst for New Models”. The issues contains four papers on recent developments in urban modelling originally presented at … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy, Flows, LUTI models, Planning Support, Urban Models
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Our Technology Changes Us
My current editorial in Environment and Planning B deals with the impact that the technologies we invent have on the very object that we are studying with the same technologies: using computers to study cities that are now composed of … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Complexity, Emergence, Smart Cities, Urban Models
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