Category Archives: Planning Support

The Beginnings of GIS

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Michael Batty

UCL has many famous sons. Brian Berry graduated here in 1955 before he went Stateside and Roger Tomlinson, the ‘father of GIS’ who coined the very term in the early 1960s, did his PhD here. Carl Steinitz who is a … Continue reading →

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Big Data+City Planning

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Michael Batty

A special issue of the new journal Dialogues in Human Geography has just come out devoted to Geography and Big Data. There are several commentaries on the position paper by Mark Graham and Taylor Shelton entitled ‘Geography and the future … Continue reading →

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Applied Urban Modelling

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Michael Batty

Read our editorial in the current issue of Transactions in GIS about “Applied Urban Modeling: New Types of Spatial Data Provide a Catalyst for New Models”. The issues contains four papers on recent developments in urban modelling originally presented at … Continue reading →

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