Category Archives: Entropy

Fast and Slow Urban Dynamics

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Michael Batty

The first paper published on our Simulacra model from the Tyndall Cities project, modified to deal with energy change through transport costs in Greater London. Click here to access the paper in the current issue of Environment and Planning A … 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 →

Posted in Agent-Based Models, Cellular Automata, Complexity, Emergence, Entropy, Fractals, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws, rank size, Scaling | Leave a comment

Research, Write, Type, Submit, Pass, and 30 Years Later …..

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Michael Batty

… chop the thesis up, scan it, and put it online for all those who should have been reading it this past three decades but couldn’t, wouldn’t, never knew it existed and so on. Or have never read a thesis … Continue reading →

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