Category Archives: rank size

Urban Clusters and Agglomeration

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Michael Batty

A new paper from our group. Click here for the paper and also for the issue of Environment and Planning B . Abstract: Agglomeration economies are a persistent subject of debate in regional science and city planning. Their definition turns on … Continue reading →

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City size: Spatial dynamics as temporal flows

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Michael Batty

Robin Edwards and myself have improved our visualisation of city size and rank over time and this is now published as a featured graphic in Environment and Planning A in their forthcoming material. It is quite hard to represent three variables in a two-dimensional … Continue reading →

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Optimal Cities, Ideal Cities

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Michael Batty

Ideal Cities, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mile High Tower The Illinois (pictured here), and Le Corbusier’s City of Tomorrow have fallen out of fashion in recent years. But the rise of the smart city and the notion of the instrumented … Continue reading →

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