Category Archives: rank size

Cities in a Completely Urbanised World

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Michael Batty

By the end of this century, we will all be living in Cities but what does this really mean? I have given various talks and written various editorials on this prospect but have never really thought much about what this … Continue reading →

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Visualising Ranks and Size in Space and Time

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Michael Batty

Alluvial diagrams were first proposed to represent changes in network structure over time. Robin Edwards from CASA has implemented the tool and has several examples from social and political arrays which he shows in his blog GeoTheory. Rosvall and Bergstrom’s popularisation of … Continue reading →

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The Israel Pollak Lectures at Technion

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Michael Batty

This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading →

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