Category Archives: Smart Cities

TechniCity: The Course Begins Again

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Michael Batty

The second version of this online course starts on 26th February. Register here. I posted a comment when the course began and that is still relevant. Click for this. There is a shortish neat manual that tells you about last … Continue reading →

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Science and the City 2014

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Michael Batty

Science and the City is an annual weekend-long hackfest, co-organized by NYU’s ITP, the Interactive Telecommunications Programme, and CUSP, the Center for Urban Science and Progress. The theme is citizen science for exploring and improving our urban environment. Some of … Continue reading →

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City 1.0, City 2.0, City n.0 … City t

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Michael Batty

A major problem in understanding contemporary (and future) cities is the fact that they ‘appear’ to be changing faster than we can keep up. Our theories which were culled in the last half century about how cities are spatially organised … Continue reading →

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