Category Archives: Scaling

Constructing Cities, Deconstructing Scaling Laws

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Michael Batty

Our work on attempting to repeat the work of the Santa Fe group who show that as cities get bigger (primarily for the USA) they get more than proportionately richer, has drawn a massive blank for the UK urban system (England … Continue reading →

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The Social Face of Complexity Science

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Michael Batty

Subtitled “A Festschrift for Professor Peter M. Allen” You may say ‘I don’t read Festschrifts, stuffy old things for a bygone age. Wrong ! Always wrong and you must read this one! Because here is someone who has had a massive … Continue reading →

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Urban Complexity and Planning

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Michael Batty

 An interesting new book by Shi-Kung Lai and Haoying Han which weaves together their various papers which range from strict cellular automata models of urban processes to models of organisational structures such as Cohen’s decision-making model applied to planning (The … Continue reading →

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