Category Archives: Complexity

More about Urban Science

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Michael Batty

There is a lot of effort in the current developments involving computers and physics to think about cities as prompting a new kind of science of cities. Luis Bettencourt and Geoff West have argued this in a recent commentary in … Continue reading →

Posted in allometry, Big Data, Complexity, Information, Interactions, Scaling | Leave a comment

The Future Cities Agenda

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Michael Batty

Cities are the hot topic of the early 21st century.  Read our/my agenda for what we might do. Many groups are now fashioning such an agenda for future cities dealing with every thing from smart cities, big data and simulation to … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Complexity, Information, Planning Support, Smart Cities | Leave a comment

Complexity Lectures Begin

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Michael Batty

Returned from my travels only to be confronted with yet another lecture course which you can get from this blog, but the innovation is that I am backing up the course with the wonderful Santa Fe lectures on complexity led … Continue reading →

Posted in Agent-Based Models, Cellular Automata, Complexity, Emergence, Entropy, Fractals, Hierarchy, Interactions, power laws, rank size, Scaling | Leave a comment