Category Archives: Information

Theoretical Filters

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Michael Batty

Science celebrates the goal of parsimony. Occam’s razor and all that. Indeed I wrote an editorial about this a few years ago in 2010 (click here). The idea rests on assumptions that our best theories are those that strip away … Continue reading →

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Cities, Environment and Sustainability

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Michael Batty

Hegel once said that ‘everything is connected to everything else’ and in our world of cities, this seems ever resonant with the problems that we face. Danny Hillis and Neri Oxman have called this the Age of Entanglement and in this … Continue reading →

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Big Data and Urban Informatics

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Michael Batty

Vonu Thakuriah, Nebiyou Tilahun and Moira Zellner organized a very successful conference in August 2014 in Chicago. CASA had two papers at the meeting and you can drill down and find them in the Proceedings which you get access to here. … Continue reading →

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