Category Archives: urban and regional planning

Encounters in Planning Thought

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Michael Batty

Click on the picture or on this link to by the book online. The project has a web site – click here for the web site and the wider context from which this extract is taken. And take a look inside … Continue reading →

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China Rising? Empty Cities, Ghost Towns

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Michael Batty

My current editorial in Environment and Planning B tracks the massive investments in infrastructure in China which have taken place since the Great Recession of 2007-2008. One of the key features of contemporary economic systems is their volatility with respect … 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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