Category Archives: Networks

Geographies of Technology

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Michael Batty

Read our paper by Batty, Lin and Chen on Virtual Realities, Analogies and Technologies in Geography, where we continue to parade the idea of virtual geographic environments – VGE From the publisher’s blurb: This Handbook offers an insightful and comprehensive overview from … Continue reading →

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Understanding Spatial Media

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Michael Batty

A new book from the Kitchin stable. I have a short chapter in it on smart cities and you can get it here. Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become … Continue reading →

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Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Michael Batty

This great book edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Andrzej Nowak, and Yi-Cheng Zhang brings together many contributions from an EU project which lead to several workshops and conferences about a new form of social science – out … Continue reading →

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