Category Archives: Scaling

Sustainability and the City

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Michael Batty

CSIRO are running a workshop in their Science Frontier Symposium in central Melbourne from today 12th to friday 14th June. I am talking about a Science of Cities this afternoon at 3-30 in Melbourne Town Hall with Peter Newman and Bob … Continue reading →

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More City Science

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Michael Batty

My talk is here to download as a PDF and at some point the Santa Fe Web Site (which you can get below will have the video. I will post the video too on our CASA web site. My talk at … Continue reading →

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MIT’s Media Lab as City Science

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Michael Batty

Suddenly the world seems to have woken up to the fact that we can treat cities as a science. More than 100 years ago, Patrick Geddes said “Thus, in fact, appear the methods of a Science of Cities …..”  in Cities in … Continue reading →

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