Category Archives: Planning Support

Applied Urban Modelling 2018

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Michael Batty

This conference is the seventh in a by-now very well established meeting held each June in Cambridge UK, which brings together those working on land use transport interaction/integration models (LUTI models) in the narrower sense and more generally on urban … Continue reading →

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Encounters in Planning Thought

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Michael Batty

The IPHS (International Planning History Society) has conferred one of its 2018 book prizes on Trixi Haselberger’s edited collection of the thoughts and reflections of some 16 of us who gathered in Vienna in 2014. I myself am not keen … Continue reading →

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Planning Knowledge and Research

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Michael Batty

Here is a useful and interesting book on the nature of planning knowledge and research. My own contribution – click here to get the original PDF – is about scientific method and how theory and models pertain to the field … Continue reading →

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