Category Archives: Emergence

MIT’s Media Lab as City Science

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Michael Batty

Suddenly the world seems to have woken up to the fact that we can treat cities as a science. More than 100 years ago, Patrick Geddes said “Thus, in fact, appear the methods of a Science of Cities …..”  in Cities in … Continue reading →

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Complexity Lectures Begin

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Michael Batty

Returned from my travels only to be confronted with yet another lecture course which you can get from this blog, but the innovation is that I am backing up the course with the wonderful Santa Fe lectures on complexity led … Continue reading →

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Geodesign

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Michael Batty

Presenting this morning at ESRI Geodesign Summit with the title Simulating Geodesign: Agents as Designers, Agents as Buildings. Click on the pdf to get a sense of what this is about. Most geodesign is the application of spatial analytics and … Continue reading →

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