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: Complexity
More City Science
My talk is here to download as a PDF and at some point the Santa Fe Web Site (which you can get below will have the video. I will post the video too on our CASA web site. My talk at … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Complexity, Economies of scale, Emergence, Geodesign, Information, Scaling
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MIT’s Media Lab as City Science
Suddenly the world seems to have woken up to the fact that we can treat cities as a science. More than 100 years ago, Patrick Geddes said “Thus, in fact, appear the methods of a Science of Cities …..” in Cities in … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Emergence, Fractals, Hierarchy, Networks, Scaling, Smart Cities
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The Mayor’s Geek Squad
Great article from the New York Times cataloguing the many unusual ways in which Mayor Bloomberg’s group of tech savvy professionals are piecing together data from diverse sources to attack some of the cities biggest and most persistent problems. Many … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Complexity, Information, Interactions, Smart Cities
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