Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Category Archives: allometry
Inventing Future Cities
If you wish to purchase a copy, see panel on right We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Big Data, Complexity, Connectivity, Flows, Hierarchy, Information, power laws, Scaling, Uncategorized
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In the Shadow of Darwin
Michael Batty is working on a project with colleagues from the University of Melbourne, UNC at Chapel Hill, and the Santa Fe Institute at the Galapagos Science Centre with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. They are exploring the way human … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Complexity, Connectivity, Emergence
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Cities and regions in Britain through hierarchical percolation
Our paper in Royal Society Open Science is published this week (April 6th 2016). This is one of the major themes in our ERC Project Mechanicity which has sought to explore how we can define and classify cities according to … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Complexity, Economies of scale, Networks, Scaling
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