Category Archives: Graphs

Visual Analytics for Urban Design

Andy and myself have done a paper for the Autumn 2014 issue of the Urban Design Journal that explores the range of visual analytics by which we mean visualisations that have an analytical meaning – 3D, maps, graphics, flows and dashboards. You … Continue reading

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Two visions of smart cities

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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Urban Network Analysis Toolbox

Andre Svetsuk and the City Form Lab have just announced the Urban Networks Analysis Toolbox v1.01 for ArcGIS. This can be downloaded free. The following text is from their web site. As the first of its kind, this ArcGIS toolbox can be … Continue reading

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