Category Archives: Complexity

A Quick Course in Smart Cities

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Michael Batty

Five lecture sessions starting tonight at 6-00pm at Arizona State University to a graduate class of geographers and planners on Smart Cities. Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week and Wednesday and Friday the following week. Two lectures per session for … Continue reading →

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Gravity

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Michael Batty

Krugman is very, very insightful when it comes to social physics. His NY Times blog on ‘Gravity’ relates to an article by Adam Davidson on how a gravity model is able to simulate trade between a place called Kanesh in … Continue reading →

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Mechanicity: Future Cities

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Michael Batty

My European Research Council (ERC) grant comes to an end in 3 months time. You can hear me talk about the project courtesy of an ERC podcast by clicking here but in this post I will tell you what the project … Continue reading →

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