Category Archives: Smart Cities

The Next Two Lectures (5, 6) Online

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Michael Batty

The next two lectures of this course (lectures 5 and 6 which are 1 and 2 in session 3) are online accessible by clicking here. For those on CASA’s MSc in Smart Cities course, these are background material and without my … Continue reading →

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The First Publicly Displayed Computer Graphic?

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Michael Batty

In digging up material for my smart cities lectures, I have always given a short history of computer graphics by way of background to visualization of cities. In fact the first computer graphic appears to be Jay Forrester’s demonstration of … Continue reading →

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A Quick Course in Smart Cities

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Michael Batty

Five lecture sessions starting tonight at 6-00pm at Arizona State University to a graduate class of geographers and planners on Smart Cities. Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week and Wednesday and Friday the following week. Two lectures per session for … Continue reading →

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