Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
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Category Archives: Scaling
City Analytics
City Analytics: An invited special collection of articles for Royal Society Open Science entitled ‘City Analytics’ compiled and edited by Desmond J. Higham, Michael Batty, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Danica Vukadinovic Greetham and Peter Grindrod. Click here or on the image … Continue reading
Posted in Agent-Based Models, Big Data, city size, Complexity, Emergence, Flows, Interactions, Networks, Scaling
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Cities and regions in Britain through hierarchical percolation
Our paper in Royal Society Open Science is published this week (April 6th 2016). This is one of the major themes in our ERC Project Mechanicity which has sought to explore how we can define and classify cities according to … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Complexity, Economies of scale, Networks, Scaling
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A City is Not a Tree: 50th Anniversary Edition
A really nice idea. Michael Mehaffy has put together a superb collection of comments on Chris Alexander’s famous 1965 paper “A City is Not a Tree”. The comments which are presented in slightly longer papers and shorter contributions are from those … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Complexity, Emergence, Hierarchy, power laws, Scaling
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