Category Archives: Complexity

20 years of quantitative geographical thinking

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Michael Batty

In 1996, Denise Pumain set up the online journal Cybergeo . When she first proposed this the web was in its infancy and I remember thinking that this was a very high-risk proposal in a world where the notion that we might … Continue reading →

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Modelling World 2016: Complexity in Land Use Transport Models

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Michael Batty

Giving a paper on Thursday 2nd June in London at Modelling World. Talking about Complexity in Land Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) Modelling, outlining very briefly our QUANT model for the Future Cities Catapult. This model is designed to simulate employment … Continue reading →

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How Disruptive is the Smart City Movement?

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Michael Batty

A couple of months ago I attended a meeting at Wilton Park in Sussex organised by the Uk Government’s Tech City Hub (http://www.techcityuk.com/) and a cloud computing company called Improbable (http://improbable.io/) specialising in massively parallel agent based modelling (for cities, transport, … Continue reading →

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