Author Archives: Michael Batty

About Michael Batty

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

Advanced Geo-Simulation Models

I wrote the Foreword for this eBook and I think it is Ok for me to let you read what I have written as the book is online. If you click on the image of the book cover above, then … Continue reading

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Peter Hall’s 80th Birthday

The UK Government has just rediscovered Garden Cities, in time for Peter’s 80th Birthday. Amazing how you can use computers to bake a birthday cake with Ebenezer Howards immortal diagram as motif. We sampled the cake in Malcolm Grant’s Room … Continue reading

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Big Data, Complexity, Networks at the German Physical Society

Full Details of the Meeting are Here Various people from UCL and Kings are contributing to this meeting in Berlin. Mike Batty from CASA is talking on how cities and their evident complexity require big data which is rapidly becoming … Continue reading

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