Author Archives: Michael Batty

About Michael Batty

I chair CASA at UCL which I set up in 1995. I am Bartlett Professor In UCL.

USC Smart Cities Meeting

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Michael Batty

The Urban Systems Collaborative (USC) Annual Meeting  Is being held at Imperial College in London today and tomorrow (10-11 September). The meeting is essentially about smart cities but in particular how smart cities affect the quality of life in cities, … Continue reading →

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ECTQG 2013

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Michael Batty

CASA members presented at this meeting which is being held at Dourdan near Paris September 6-9. Melanie Bosredon and Robin Morphet presented papers on their various models of land use systems and Mike Batty joined Wolfgang Weidlich and Peter Allen … Continue reading →

Posted in Agent-Based Models, Cellular Automata, Complexity, Fractals, Interactions, LUTI models, Urban Models | Leave a comment

The Moving City

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Michael Batty

Riccardo Maria Pulselli from the Ecodynamics Group at the University of Siena has put his fascinating book on urban kinetics online. Click here to view. In it he demonstrates that cities are never in equilibrium, they are always changing, and … Continue reading →

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