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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Understanding Spatial Media
A new book from the Kitchin stable. I have a short chapter in it on smart cities and you can get it here. Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Information, Interactions, Networks, Smart Cities
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The Prevalence, Scaling and Variance of Urban Phenomena
This coming month (January 2017) sees the launch of another of Nature’s flagship journals Nature Human Behaviour. In it, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, and Ricardo Hausmann explore an integrated model which explains the prevalence, scaling and variance of urban phenomena … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Complexity, Economies of scale, Information, power laws
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Big Data and the City
Look at the current issue of Built Environment. Papers from CASA and CASA alumni here as well as several others. “Big data is everywhere, largely generated by automated systems operating in real time that potentially tell us how cities are … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Complexity, Flows, Information, Interactions, Smart Cities
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