Category Archives: city size

The Fractured Nature of British Politics

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Michael Batty

The Morning After: Predictions closer than all of us thought,  a Divided Britain Carlos, Elsa, Duncan and myself (Mike) decided to explore next week’s British election using some of our social physics, specifically our work on uncovering urban hierarchies through percolation … Continue reading →

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Visualising Ranks and Size in Space and Time

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Michael Batty

Alluvial diagrams were first proposed to represent changes in network structure over time. Robin Edwards from CASA has implemented the tool and has several examples from social and political arrays which he shows in his blog GeoTheory. Rosvall and Bergstrom’s popularisation of … Continue reading →

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At the Crossroads of Urban Growth

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Michael Batty

A spectre is haunting urban growth relating to how development is financed. My current editorial in Environment and Planning B (December 2014, issue 6) discusses the increasing disconnect between demand and supply of new buildings using the example of Wuhan … Continue reading →

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