Category Archives: Big Data

Urban Physics

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Michael Batty

Papers on the notion that physics can help us articulate our understanding of cities are not new but there are several recent commentaries worth looking at. There is a short sharp one pager that articulates the new science of cities as being … Continue reading →

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Big Data in the Big Apple

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Michael Batty

What we can learn here from New York: an interesting report from Eddie Copeland at the Policy Exchange. Fascinating reading from the place where open data was invented, and where Urban Mechanics was begun. I quote from the blurb: Today marks the … Continue reading →

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The Sixth Kondratieff Is The Smart City

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Michael Batty

Nikolai Kondratieff, a Soviet-era economist in the 1920s, developed a theory of the economy where technological innovations drove the business cycle. This looked a little too like the way the capitalist world explained itself and for these sins, Stalin sent … Continue reading →

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