Category Archives: Complexity

AI, Smart Cities and Urban Planning

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Michael Batty

read my editorial in EPB: Urban Analytics and City Science, and also check out the fact that it is almost 50 years from when Alan Wilson started Environment and Planning (A) and 45 from when Lionel March started B. The … Continue reading →

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Planning Knowledge and Research

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Michael Batty

Here is a useful and interesting book on the nature of planning knowledge and research. My own contribution – click here to get the original PDF – is about scientific method and how theory and models pertain to the field … Continue reading →

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In The Post-Urban World

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Michael Batty

This new book edited by Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund from KTH is a collection of interesting and somewhat oblique essays on the urban world we have entered. Lot of people you know writing here. Ed Glaeser, Richard Florida, Patrick … Continue reading →

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