Category Archives: Complexity

Mobility, Transit and Big Data

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Michael Batty

Yesterday I gave a talk on data-driven models to the Hong Kong Poly U Department of Land Surveying and Geomatics, and today I give a similar talk at at 2-30pm in Geography at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. When I got to the … Continue reading →

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Cities and regions in Britain through hierarchical percolation

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Michael Batty

Our paper in Royal Society Open Science is published this week (April 6th 2016). This is one of the major themes in our ERC Project Mechanicity which has sought to explore how we can define and classify cities according to … Continue reading →

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A City is Not a Tree: 50th Anniversary Edition

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Michael Batty

A really nice idea. Michael Mehaffy has put together a superb collection of comments on Chris Alexander’s famous 1965 paper “A City is Not a Tree”. The comments which are presented in slightly longer papers and shorter contributions are from those … Continue reading →

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