Smart Cities

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Michael Batty

This entry goes to the CASA blog aggregator so those viewing it will be getting a blow by blow account of each lecture as I post it. As I don’t lecture much in CASA, at least it shows when I am away I am doing things. This fifth lecture introduces networks and flows, opposite sides of the same coin, key to complexity as interaction and connectivity. Click left for the pdf or the Menu Item Lecture 5 above.

Posted in Flows, Graphs, Interactions, Networks, power laws | Tagged Networks | Leave a comment

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Michael Batty

You can now download the fourth lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 4, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture continues the first kind of scaling based on size distributions focussing on names, high buildings, firms and incomes and then moves to the second kind of scaling – allometry which compares how the attributes of an object scale as the object changes in size.

Posted in allometry, clocks, Economies of scale, power laws, rank size | Leave a comment

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Michael Batty

You can now download the third lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 3, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture focuses on the first kind of scaling which pertains to city size distributions. We look at the stability of these as power laws and also the volatility of the elements (cities) of which these functions are composed.