Category Archives: Interactions

Fast and Slow Urban Dynamics

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Michael Batty

The first paper published on our Simulacra model from the Tyndall Cities project, modified to deal with energy change through transport costs in Greater London. Click here to access the paper in the current issue of Environment and Planning A … Continue reading →

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The Mayor’s Geek Squad

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Michael Batty

Great article from the New York Times cataloguing the many unusual ways in which Mayor Bloomberg’s group of tech savvy professionals are piecing together data from diverse sources to attack some of the cities biggest and most persistent problems. Many … Continue reading →

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More about Urban Science

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Michael Batty

There is a lot of effort in the current developments involving computers and physics to think about cities as prompting a new kind of science of cities. Luis Bettencourt and Geoff West have argued this in a recent commentary in … Continue reading →

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