Category Archives: Information

Wicked Problems

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Michael Batty

40 years ago, Horst Rittel and Mel Webber published their seminal article entitled Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. In it, they argued that many, if not most, problems in cities that planners were engaged in ‘solving’, tended to … Continue reading →

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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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Visualisation and Visual Analytics

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Michael Batty

Gave a talk today to the Market Research Society’s meeting on “Generating Value from the 2011 Census: How business can benefit from the new free Census data”. The talk was a compilation of ideas developed by Ollie O’Brien, Steven Gray, … Continue reading →

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