Category Archives: Urban Models

Our Technology Changes Us

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Michael Batty

My current editorial in Environment and Planning B deals with the impact that the technologies we invent have on the very object that we are studying with the same technologies: using computers to study cities that are now composed of … Continue reading →

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Prix Vautrin-Lud 2013

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Michael Batty

I give my Prix Vautrin-Lud Lecture today at 2pm in Saint Die des Vosges where Vautrin Lud organised the production of the first map of America in 1507. This was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an early traveller to America who … Continue reading →

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ECTQG 2013

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Michael Batty

CASA members presented at this meeting which is being held at Dourdan near Paris September 6-9. Melanie Bosredon and Robin Morphet presented papers on their various models of land use systems and Mike Batty joined Wolfgang Weidlich and Peter Allen … Continue reading →

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