Category Archives: Urban Models

Classifying Models: What Krugman Says

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Michael Batty

You may think that this blog has enough on ‘models’ to sink a ship and I have a new editorial on this in EPB. But there is a wonderful article by Paul Krugman on models which I have just come across although written two decades or so ago. Krugman … 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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Urban Systems Science at CCS 2015

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Michael Batty

A diverse selection of talks on the Science of Cities at the 2015 Conference on Complex Systems, starting this afternoon in the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Tempe AZ Canyon Room. My own talk is about our Future Cities Catapult Land … Continue reading →

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