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Cities, Environment and Sustainability

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Michael Batty

Hegel once said that ‘everything is connected to everything else’ and in our world of cities, this seems ever resonant with the problems that we face. Danny Hillis and Neri Oxman have called this the Age of Entanglement and in this … Continue reading →

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Smart Cities — Antoine Picon

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Michael Batty

Neat, crisp informative book by Antoine Picon in the AD Primer Series. Gives myself, James Cheshire and Joan Serras a mention too on transit in London and the science of cities but the book is valuable as a quick but meaty … Continue reading →

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Big Data in the Big Apple

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Michael Batty

What we can learn here from New York: an interesting report from Eddie Copeland at the Policy Exchange. Fascinating reading from the place where open data was invented, and where Urban Mechanics was begun. I quote from the blurb: Today marks the … Continue reading →

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