Category Archives: power laws

Geocomputation A Primer

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Michael Batty

A very nicely produced review of geocomputation in this edited book by Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton. It covers many interesting new techniques from agent based models to new visual statistics, from crowdsourcing methods to the newer scripting languages that are … Continue reading →

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Constructing Cities, Deconstructing Scaling Laws

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Michael Batty

Our work on attempting to repeat the work of the Santa Fe group who show that as cities get bigger (primarily for the USA) they get more than proportionately richer, has drawn a massive blank for the UK urban system (England … Continue reading →

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The Social Face of Complexity Science

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Michael Batty

Subtitled “A Festschrift for Professor Peter M. Allen” You may say ‘I don’t read Festschrifts, stuffy old things for a bygone age. Wrong ! Always wrong and you must read this one! Because here is someone who has had a massive … Continue reading →

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