Category Archives: Economies of scale

Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Michael Batty

This great book edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Andrzej Nowak, and Yi-Cheng Zhang brings together many contributions from an EU project which lead to several workshops and conferences about a new form of social science – out … 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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Cities as Flows in a Circular Economy

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Michael Batty

Podcast: Cities as flows in a circular economy Wrote a chapter in the new book from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which I blogged about earlier – click here for details. But each of the chapters is accompanied by a podcast … Continue reading →

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