Category Archives: Complexity

Encounters in Planning Thought

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Michael Batty

Click on the picture or on this link to by the book online. The project has a web site – click here for the web site and the wider context from which this extract is taken. And take a look inside … Continue reading →

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The Prevalence, Scaling and Variance of Urban Phenomena

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Michael Batty

This coming month (January 2017) sees the launch of another of Nature’s flagship journals Nature Human Behaviour. In it, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, and Ricardo Hausmann explore an integrated model which explains the prevalence, scaling and variance of urban phenomena … Continue reading →

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Confronting Vulnerability and Violence in the Urban Century

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Michael Batty

Did you know that there were more murders in the US-Mexico border town Ciudad Juarez in 2010 than civilian deaths in the whole of Afghanistan – 3111 compared to 2421. Mike Batty gave a talk at this meeting which was organised … Continue reading →

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