Category Archives: Hierarchy

Santa Fe, Complexity, Cities

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Michael Batty

The Mathematical Puzzle That Is the Complexity of the City: An interesting article in the Atlantic Cities pages by Samuel Arbesman on how we are developing this science of cities – a prelude the workshop at Santa Fe this week … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of Subway Networks

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Michael Batty

Today our paper about the evolution of world city subway networks is published online in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. We compare a dozen subway networks around the world in large cities using various graph theoretic network measures. … Continue reading →

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To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Michael Batty

Jason Silva’s wonderful demonstration of patterns and order across many evolving spatial systems is what our science of cities is all about: flows, interactions, dynamics, self-similiarity, hierarchy and of course fractals. Take a look. These patterns swirl around all our … Continue reading →

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