All I Want For Christmas …
… is the biggest, fattest book I have ever contributed to, almost unknowingly. Imagine my surprise when the large parcel, almost too heavy for the postman to carry, arrived on my desk, containing a...
View ArticleRepresenting Social Flows
The flow analogy is central to our work in COSMIC, Mechanicity and related projects which argue that cities should be considered as first and foremost as flow systems, not as locational patterns. This...
View ArticleThe ARCADIA Employment Model
Duncan Smith, Camilo-Vargas Ruiz and myself (Mike Batty) have completed the employment model for the Arcadia Integrated Assessment Model. The model is unique in that it is built at the regional level...
View ArticleSimulating the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Large Cities
Anders Johansson, Mike Batty and colleagues’ paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is published online today. There they are exploring how models for simulating crowds can be extended to deal with...
View ArticleLondon (Re)generation AD: Architectural Design
The Bartlett’s Michael Batty, Matthew Carmona, Edward Denison, Murray Fraser, Matthew Gandy, and Hilary Powell all feature in current issue of Architectural Design, a lively, thought-provoking...
View ArticleMartin Dodge, ex-CASA, wins AAG Meridian Prize for his Book Code/Space
Martin was an RA in CASA and then lecturer from 1996 to 2004. He is now Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester. He coauthored the book with another friend of CASA, ROb Kitchin of...
View ArticleComplexity Theory in Cities
Here is a new book on complexity and cities entitled “Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design” edited by Juval Portugali, Han Meyer,...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Managing Complex Systems, 5 March 2012
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) are organising this seminar on 5th March 2012 starting at 9-30am at Trippenhuis,...
View ArticleBig Data, Complexity, Networks at the German Physical Society
Full Details of the Meeting are Here Various people from UCL and Kings are contributing to this meeting in Berlin. Mike Batty from CASA is talking on how cities and their evident complexity require...
View ArticlePlotting Every Crash on Every Road 1999-2010
Jason Dykes showed this at the GeoVisualisation Meeting in Oxford on August 30th: A map of road crashes in Great Britain (not the UK) from 1999 to 2010. It mirrors of course the road network and the...
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