Category Archives: Hierarchy

CA Models: A Progress Report

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Michael Batty

12 years ago we held a meeting in CASA on Cellular Automata Models. David O’Sullivan and Paul Torrens, both PhD students at the time – in fact David had finished and it was just before he went to Penn State … Continue reading →

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Phil Ball’s Little Masterpiece

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Michael Batty

Phil Ball’s little book is one of the best summaries I have come across on complexity theory and its applications. This little triumph of clarity argues that society’s problems are those of highly connected systems. The book has been written … Continue reading →

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Old is the New Cool at CASA

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Michael Batty

In 1977, we made a movie about how you build retail spatial interaction models which compute the impacts of new shopping centres on their surroundings. It was made for an Open University Course called Modelling by Mathematics (TM281). It was … Continue reading →

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