Category Archives: Networks

Sustainability and the City

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Michael Batty

CSIRO are running a workshop in their Science Frontier Symposium in central Melbourne from today 12th to friday 14th June. I am talking about a Science of Cities this afternoon at 3-30 in Melbourne Town Hall with Peter Newman and Bob … Continue reading →

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New Smart Cities Lectures Online

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Michael Batty

This is more or less a repeat of my course at ASU earlier this year and although I peppered this with a lot more comment and discussion in terms of the actual presentations to graduates at Tel-Aviv University (TAU), most … Continue reading →

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MIT’s Media Lab as City Science

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Michael Batty

Suddenly the world seems to have woken up to the fact that we can treat cities as a science. More than 100 years ago, Patrick Geddes said “Thus, in fact, appear the methods of a Science of Cities …..”  in Cities in … Continue reading →

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