Category Archives: Scaling

The Israel Pollak Lectures at Technion

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Michael Batty

This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading →

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Michael Szell’s Review in Science

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Michael Batty

Michael Szell from the SENSEable Cities Lab at MIT has given my book a very generous review in this week’s edition of Science (28 February, Volume 343, pp. 970-971) where he suggests that my synthesis defines a way forward for … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Urban Science

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Michael Batty

CUSP –  New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress – in launching their Masters program in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, have put together a fascinating course called Foundations of Urban Science which is being taught this fall by … Continue reading →

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