Category Archives: Economies of scale

Editor’s Choice: Geddes’ Centenary Paper

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Michael Batty

The Editor of Landscape and Urban Planning has chosen our paper by Stephen Marshall and myself on Patrick Geddes as Editor’s choice. Our prize is that you can download it free from here and I do not have to post it … Continue reading →

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Interacting Agglomerations

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Michael Batty

A paper originating from our EU FP7 Insight project on extending land use transportation models to embrace better sub models of the retailing sector. Our paper entitled “Quantifying Retail Agglomeration using Diverse Spatial Data” by Duccio Piovani, Vassilis Zachariadis and … Continue reading →

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Cities and Civilization, and other classic reviews

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Michael Batty

This year is the 50th Anniversary of Regional Studies, the journal. Peter Hall was the first editor and my early years as a lecturer coincided with his stewardship of the journal and his role as Head of Department of Geography … Continue reading →

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