Category Archives: Interactions

Flow, Conflux

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Michael Batty

“The city is not only a community, it is a conflux. ….The real city, as a center of industry, is a conflux of streams of traffic; as a center of culture, it is conflux of streams of thought.” So wrote … Continue reading →

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Michael Szell’s Review in Science

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Michael Batty

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 →

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City 1.0, City 2.0, City n.0 … City t

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Michael Batty

A major problem in understanding contemporary (and future) cities is the fact that they ‘appear’ to be changing faster than we can keep up. Our theories which were culled in the last half century about how cities are spatially organised … Continue reading →

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