Category Archives: power laws

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 →

Posted in allometry, Big Data, Complexity, Connectivity, Flows, Hierarchy, Information, power laws, Scaling, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Agent-Based Models, Cellular Automata, Complexity, Economies of scale, Entropy, Flows, Interactions, LUTI models, Planning Support, power laws, Smart Cities, Transport Models, urban and regional planning, Urban Dynamics, Urban Models | Leave a comment

Urban Clusters and Agglomeration

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Michael Batty

A new paper from our group. Click here for the paper and also for the issue of Environment and Planning B . Abstract: Agglomeration economies are a persistent subject of debate in regional science and city planning. Their definition turns on … Continue reading →

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