Author Archives: Michael Batty

About Michael Batty

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

Learn About Cellular Automata Models

Amin Tayyebi from the Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has organized a collection of videos about land use change using Cellular Automata and related cell-space models and methods. He commissioned these individually and if you click on the … Continue reading

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Resilience: How Quickly Can City Systems Bounce Back

AESOP-ACSP is the joint European and American Associations of Planning Schools conference held this year in Dublin at UCD. The theme is resilience in cities and how planning might best respond to it. This is a popular term and is … Continue reading

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The Real Time City?

Rob Kitchin’s paper on smart cities focuses on “… how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’ which enable real-time analysis of city life, new modes of technocratic urban governance, and a re-imagining of … Continue reading

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