Category Archives: Urban Models

Modelling: Big Questions Remain

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Michael Batty

Recently I was asked to speculate on what strides had been made in urban and transport modelling during the last 20 years and what did I think models would evolve to in the next 20. The current editorial in EPB … Continue reading →

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The City Scientific

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Michael Batty

Matt Zook drew my attention to this paper in an article he and his colleagues recently wrote called The ‘actually existing smart city’. In it, they point to the fact that a science of cities is not new – that it … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering the Old Days

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Michael Batty

I first met Leo Kadanoff in Cambridge, England in the summer of 1974, I think. He would not remember me but he had been invited to give a talk on urban dynamics at the second Cambridge Land Use and Built … Continue reading →

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