Category Archives: Smart Cities

The Smart London Plan

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Michael Batty

From 2011 to 2021 London’s population will grow by a million – the fastest rate of acceleration ever. We are going to hit nine million before New York, and approach ten million by 2030. With these demographic projections, we will … Continue reading →

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Big Data+City Planning

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Michael Batty

A special issue of the new journal Dialogues in Human Geography has just come out devoted to Geography and Big Data. There are several commentaries on the position paper by Mark Graham and Taylor Shelton entitled ‘Geography and the future … Continue reading →

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Two visions of smart cities

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Michael Batty

A Review of Smart Cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia by Anthony M. Townsend and my own book The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty, by Tim Smedley in New Scientist Magazine issue … Continue reading →

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