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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Category Archives: city size
Michael Szell’s Review in Science
Michael Szell from the SENSEable Cities Lab at MIT has given my book a very generous review in this week’s edition of Science (28 February, Volume 343, pp. 970-971) where he suggests that my synthesis defines a way forward for … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Complexity, Geodesign, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws, Scaling, Uncategorized
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Two visions of smart cities
A Review of Smart Cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia by Anthony M. Townsend and my own book The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty, by Tim Smedley in New Scientist Magazine issue … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, city size, Complexity, Emergence, Graphs, Hierarchy, Networks, Smart Cities
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TEDxLondon: City 2.0
Friday December 6th I presented a TEDxLondon talk in the City 2.0 series. I must admit then when they invited me to present something on cities, I thought they had mistaken me for …. well, it was a surprise, anyway, … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Connectivity, power laws
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