Category Archives: power laws

Santa Fe, Complexity, Cities

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Michael Batty

The Mathematical Puzzle That Is the Complexity of the City: An interesting article in the Atlantic Cities pages by Samuel Arbesman on how we are developing this science of cities – a prelude the workshop at Santa Fe this week … Continue reading →

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X and the City

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Michael Batty

Years ago, in 1976 as many of my CASA compatriots know, I was involved in a series of TV programmes called “Modelling by Mathematics”. This was an Open University first level course to teach technology students some ideas about mathematics, … Continue reading →

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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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