Category Archives: Smart Cities

Smart Cities @Serious Games Institute

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Michael Batty

Short, sharp discussion of smart cities at Coventry University’s Serious Games Institute (this afternoon, May 8th starting at 1pm) with a talk by myself which mirrors my talk to the AGI a couple of months ago in Edinburgh (click here … Continue reading →

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SIMTABLE + Ambient Computing

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Michael Batty

The folks at Redfish Group in Santa Fe, NM have launched simtable which lets users sculpt the landscape and project onto it visual media that is produced by agent-based models of how the landscape changes. Wildfire is their current simulation using … Continue reading →

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MIT’s Media Lab as City Science

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Michael Batty

Suddenly the world seems to have woken up to the fact that we can treat cities as a science. More than 100 years ago, Patrick Geddes said “Thus, in fact, appear the methods of a Science of Cities …..”  in Cities in … Continue reading →

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