Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Category Archives: Networks
Two visions of smart cities
A Review of Smart Cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia by Anthony M. Townsend and my own book The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty, by Tim Smedley in New Scientist Magazine issue … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, city size, Complexity, Emergence, Graphs, Hierarchy, Networks, Smart Cities
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Foundations of Urban Science
CUSP – New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress – in launching their Masters program in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, have put together a fascinating course called Foundations of Urban Science which is being taught this fall by … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Big Data, city size, Complexity, Fractals, Hierarchy, LUTI models, Networks, power laws, Scaling, Urban Models
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Cities = Complexity + Design
Mike Batty, Bill Hillier and Stephen Marshall are all presenting at the 2nd Delft Complexity meeting which runs for the next three days at TUDelft. Juval Portugali is the spirit behind these meetings and the edited book from the first … Continue reading
Posted in Cellular Automata, Complexity, Connectivity, Emergence, Geodesign, Hierarchy, Networks
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