Category Archives: Connectivity

Inventing Future Cities

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Michael Batty

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 →

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Architecture and Collective Behaviour

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Michael Batty

Just published: a special Issue of Philosophical Transactions B (The Royal Society) on ‘Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour’. My own contribution is ‘open access’ and you can read it and print it from the web … Continue reading →

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Renewing infrastructure

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Michael Batty

Infrastructure has become another hot word in post-industrial economies that are busy figuring out how they can renew all the physical plant that was constructed during their industrial past. The UK has established a National Infrastructure Commission amidst a flurry … Continue reading →

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