Category Archives: Smart Cities

未来的智慧城市

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Michael Batty

My colleagues Zhao Yiting and Long Ying from the Beijing City Lab have graciously translated our paper called Smart Cities of the Future. I owe them many thanks. It is available in a special issue of the journal Urban Planning International (1673-9493, 2014, … Continue reading →

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At the Crossroads of Urban Growth

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Michael Batty

A spectre is haunting urban growth relating to how development is financed. My current editorial in Environment and Planning B (December 2014, issue 6) discusses the increasing disconnect between demand and supply of new buildings using the example of Wuhan … Continue reading →

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Virtuální Geografická Prostředí

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Michael Batty

Well I don’t know what it means either. But if you read Czech you should be off to a flying start, and the Czech guy who translated it assures me that all of Eastern Europe read Czech so there you … Continue reading →

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