Category Archives: Economies of scale

Applied Urban Modelling 2018

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Michael Batty

This conference is the seventh in a by-now very well established meeting held each June in Cambridge UK, which brings together those working on land use transport interaction/integration models (LUTI models) in the narrower sense and more generally on urban … Continue reading →

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Renewing infrastructure

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Michael Batty

Infrastructure has become another hot word in post-industrial economies that are busy figuring out how they can renew all the physical plant that was constructed during their industrial past. The UK has established a National Infrastructure Commission amidst a flurry … 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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