Category Archives: Economies of scale

More City Science

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Michael Batty

My talk is here to download as a PDF and at some point the Santa Fe Web Site (which you can get below will have the video. I will post the video too on our CASA web site. My talk at … Continue reading →

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From Neighborhoods to Nations

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Michael Batty

Spatial interaction lies at the basis of much of our science but it has been hard, if not impossible to develop an equivalent theory of social interactions. Social interactions are hard to pin down, hard to observe and explain but … Continue reading →

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X and the City

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Michael Batty

Years ago, in 1976 as many of my CASA compatriots know, I was involved in a series of TV programmes called “Modelling by Mathematics”. This was an Open University first level course to teach technology students some ideas about mathematics, … Continue reading →

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