Category Archives: Connectivity

Resilience: How Quickly Can City Systems Bounce Back

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Michael Batty

AESOP-ACSP is the joint European and American Associations of Planning Schools conference held this year in Dublin at UCD. The theme is resilience in cities and how planning might best respond to it. This is a popular term and is … Continue reading →

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The Real Time City?

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Michael Batty

Rob Kitchin’s paper on smart cities focuses on “… how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’ which enable real-time analysis of city life, new modes of technocratic urban governance, and a re-imagining of … Continue reading →

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Math Targets Cities’ Essence

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Michael Batty

Luis Bettencourt’s paper in Science on The Origins of Scaling in Cities and my commentary on it called a Theory of City Size are summarised in a rather nice piece from Rachel Ehernberg in this week’s Science News where she … Continue reading →

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