Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Category Archives: power laws
Mechanicity: Future Cities
My European Research Council (ERC) grant comes to an end in 3 months time. You can hear me talk about the project courtesy of an ERC podcast by clicking here but in this post I will tell you what the project … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Complexity, Flows, Fractals, Hierarchy, Networks, power laws
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Urban Scaling Laws
Clementine Cottineau initiated our work on paradoxical interpretations of urban scaling laws using the example of the French city system. The paper is now on the arXiv and you get it by clicking here or going direct to the arXiv. Scaling laws for … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Hierarchy, power laws, Scaling
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Gravity Models Circa 1846
Once in a while along comes a wonderful piece of historical research that again illustrates that in most fields, there is little new under the sun. Andrew Odlyzko’s recent paper entitled “The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency … Continue reading
Posted in Connectivity, Economies of scale, Flows, Interactions, power laws, Scaling
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