Category Archives: Complexity

未来的智慧城市

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Michael Batty

My colleagues Zhao Yiting and Long Ying from the Beijing City Lab have graciously translated our paper called Smart Cities of the Future. I owe them many thanks. It is available in a special issue of the journal Urban Planning International (1673-9493, 2014, … 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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Constructing Cities, Deconstructing Scaling Laws

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Michael Batty

Our work on attempting to repeat the work of the Santa Fe group who show that as cities get bigger (primarily for the USA) they get more than proportionately richer, has drawn a massive blank for the UK urban system (England … Continue reading →

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