Category Archives: Interactions

Complexity Lectures Begin

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Michael Batty

Returned from my travels only to be confronted with yet another lecture course which you can get from this blog, but the innovation is that I am backing up the course with the wonderful Santa Fe lectures on complexity led … Continue reading →

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Economic Growth, Smart Cities

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Michael Batty

Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argues that we are coming to the end of more than 200 years of rapid growth in GDP. The third industrial revolution after steam which was the first, and electricity and chemistry, the second, and … Continue reading →

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The Strange Non-Referential Domain of Morphology

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Michael Batty

How is that a niche research area such as the shape and form of cities using various mathematical and formal principles in geometry, allometry, scaling and social physics can have several distinct approaches that never refer to one another? Fractals … Continue reading →

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