Category Archives: Economies of scale

The Social Face of Complexity Science

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Michael Batty

Subtitled “A Festschrift for Professor Peter M. Allen” You may say ‘I don’t read Festschrifts, stuffy old things for a bygone age. Wrong ! Always wrong and you must read this one! Because here is someone who has had a massive … Continue reading →

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Cities, Brains, Percolation

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Michael Batty

At ECCS ’13 this morning, Elsa Arcaute, Lecturer in Urban Modelling in CASA, is talking about our work on city size using percolation theory which has analogies to Hernan Makse’s work on percolation and the brain. Click here for the … 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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