Category Archives: Emergence

Two visions of smart cities

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Michael Batty

A Review of Smart Cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia by Anthony M. Townsend and my own book The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty, by Tim Smedley in New Scientist Magazine issue … Continue reading →

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Smart Cities

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Michael Batty

This is the first book on ‘smart cities’. It is a deep and thoughtful critique, as well as an absorbing and personal account.  Anthony Townsend tells us how computers and their software and services are being embedded into cities, how we … Continue reading →

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Our Technology Changes Us

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Michael Batty

My current editorial in Environment and Planning B deals with the impact that the technologies we invent have on the very object that we are studying with the same technologies: using computers to study cities that are now composed of … Continue reading →

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