Category Archives: Interactions

Revisiting the Past

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Michael Batty

This article took 5 years in the making. We – Urskar, Jon, Ed, and myself – thought that it was a great project to see what was big data on taxi flows in central London in 1962 could be compared … Continue reading →

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Classic Books in Regional Studies

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Michael Batty

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Regional Studies, the Book Reviews section of the journal has published a series of reviews of books originally published decades ago, and whose influence has grown sufficiently that they are considered classics and milestones … Continue reading →

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New Tools for Planning the Smart City

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Michael Batty

I gave two lectures on our smart cities projects to Geography at Nanjing Normal University and to a selection of researchers at Shenyang Jianzhu University drawn from architecture, urban planning, transport and GIS on the 25th and 27th September 2017. I … Continue reading →

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