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 Prototypical Smart City
Welcome to Singapore, The Intelligent Island. No not the sign greeting you at Changi when you land now but the sign back in 1989 which we show to the left. For the last 25 years, Singapore has been in the … Continue reading
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Early Flow Maps
In researching for my talk at Peter Hall’s 80th Birthday Symposium this coming Monday in UCL’s Darwin Lecture Theatre, I came across Raymond Unwin’s book Town Planning in Practice – An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs … Continue reading
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Simulation, Scenario and Visioning …
The header of this post is the subtitle of a new book The Future of Cities and Regions edited by Bazzanella, Caneparo, Corsico, and Roccasalva. Computation has finally drawn us to the point where planning support systems informed by simulation … Continue reading
