Category Archives: Hierarchy

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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Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Michael Batty

This great book edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Andrzej Nowak, and Yi-Cheng Zhang brings together many contributions from an EU project which lead to several workshops and conferences about a new form of social science – out … Continue reading →

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