Category Archives: Urban Dynamics

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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The Circular Economy

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Michael Batty

The new book from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation contains a series of articles on cities and the built environment that relates to renewability and regeneration in terms of energy, information and new ways of conserving both physical and human resources. … 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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