Category Archives: Scaling

More about Urban Science

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Michael Batty

There is a lot of effort in the current developments involving computers and physics to think about cities as prompting a new kind of science of cities. Luis Bettencourt and Geoff West have argued this in a recent commentary in … Continue reading →

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Complexity Lectures Begin

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Michael Batty

Returned from my travels only to be confronted with yet another lecture course which you can get from this blog, but the innovation is that I am backing up the course with the wonderful Santa Fe lectures on complexity led … Continue reading →

Posted in Agent-Based Models, Cellular Automata, Complexity, Emergence, Entropy, Fractals, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws, rank size, Scaling | Leave a comment

The Strange Non-Referential Domain of Morphology

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Michael Batty

How is that a niche research area such as the shape and form of cities using various mathematical and formal principles in geometry, allometry, scaling and social physics can have several distinct approaches that never refer to one another? Fractals … Continue reading →

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