Category Archives: Emergence

Encounters in Planning Thought

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Michael Batty

Click on the picture or on this link to by the book online. The project has a web site – click here for the web site and the wider context from which this extract is taken. And take a look inside … Continue reading →

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In the Shadow of Darwin

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Michael Batty

Michael Batty is working on a project with colleagues from the University of Melbourne, UNC at Chapel Hill, and the Santa Fe Institute at the Galapagos Science Centre with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. They are exploring the way human … 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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