Category Archives: Complexity

City 1.0, City 2.0, City n.0 … City t

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Michael Batty

A major problem in understanding contemporary (and future) cities is the fact that they ‘appear’ to be changing faster than we can keep up. Our theories which were culled in the last half century about how cities are spatially organised … Continue reading →

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Science and the City

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Michael Batty

Amazingly as far back as January 1967, we were quite literally talking about ‘a science of cities’, using the cliche. Jennifer Light’s book From Warfare to Welfare published in 2003 recounts the optimism of the 1960s in which many believed … Continue reading →

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The Beginnings of GIS

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Michael Batty

UCL has many famous sons. Brian Berry graduated here in 1955 before he went Stateside and Roger Tomlinson, the ‘father of GIS’ who coined the very term in the early 1960s, did his PhD here. Carl Steinitz who is a … Continue reading →

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