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
Geodesign
Geodesign is the term coined by Carl Steinitz for the way in which “maps and geography are merging with mathematics and computing” as Jack Dangermond, President of ERSI, says in the Preface to Carl’s new book A Framework for Geodesign: … Continue reading
Posted in Cellular Automata, Geodesign, Information, Planning Support
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Santa Fe, Complexity, Cities
The Mathematical Puzzle That Is the Complexity of the City: An interesting article in the Atlantic Cities pages by Samuel Arbesman on how we are developing this science of cities – a prelude the workshop at Santa Fe this week … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Complexity, Hierarchy, power laws, rank size, Scaling
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The Future Cities Lab
Check out the Future Cities Lab established by ETH Zurich in Singapore. Many projects dealing with every aspects of the city-state but relevant to our own work on land use transport and mobility is their MATSims model which is now running … Continue reading
Posted in Agent-Based Models, Flows, Interactions, LUTI models, Smart Cities
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