Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Category Archives: Hierarchy
Michael Szell’s Review in Science
Michael Szell from the SENSEable Cities Lab at MIT has given my book a very generous review in this week’s edition of Science (28 February, Volume 343, pp. 970-971) where he suggests that my synthesis defines a way forward for … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Complexity, Geodesign, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws, Scaling, Uncategorized
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The Beginnings of GIS
UCL has many famous sons. Brian Berry graduated here in 1955 before he went Stateside and Roger Tomlinson, the ‘father of GIS’ who coined the very term in the early 1960s, did his PhD here. Carl Steinitz who is a … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Geodesign, Hierarchy, Information, Planning Support
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Two visions of smart cities
A Review of Smart Cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia by Anthony M. Townsend and my own book The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty, by Tim Smedley in New Scientist Magazine issue … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, city size, Complexity, Emergence, Graphs, Hierarchy, Networks, Smart Cities
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