Category Archives: Networks

The Evolution of Subway Networks

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Michael Batty

Today our paper about the evolution of world city subway networks is published online in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. We compare a dozen subway networks around the world in large cities using various graph theoretic network measures. … Continue reading →

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Big Data, Complexity, Networks at the German Physical Society

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Michael Batty

Full Details of the Meeting are Here Various people from UCL and Kings are contributing to this meeting in Berlin. Mike Batty from CASA is talking on how cities and their evident complexity require big data which is rapidly becoming … Continue reading →

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On to 21st Century Urban Simulation

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Michael Batty

Gone are the land use transportation models of the last three weeks and now come cellular automata models (lecture 7), fractal models and morphologies (lecture 8) and next week we will broach agent-based models. Click to get these two lectures. … Continue reading →

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