Category Archives: Economies of scale

Cities, Environment and Sustainability

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Michael Batty

Hegel once said that ‘everything is connected to everything else’ and in our world of cities, this seems ever resonant with the problems that we face. Danny Hillis and Neri Oxman have called this the Age of Entanglement and in this … Continue reading →

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Cities and regions in Britain through hierarchical percolation

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Michael Batty

Our paper in Royal Society Open Science is published this week (April 6th 2016). This is one of the major themes in our ERC Project Mechanicity which has sought to explore how we can define and classify cities according to … Continue reading →

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A multilevel portrait of shrinking urban Russia

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Michael Batty

A really nice article from Clementine Cottineau, one of our researchers, on how Russia is shrinking (Read in English or French, from Espace Populations Sociétés. Techniques that we may be able to apply in our new Digital Economies research project to shrinking Britain, … Continue reading →

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