Category Archives: Smart Cities

Anthony’ Townsend’s Talk in CASA

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Michael Batty
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Smart Cities

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Michael Batty

This is the first book on ‘smart cities’. It is a deep and thoughtful critique, as well as an absorbing and personal account.  Anthony Townsend tells us how computers and their software and services are being embedded into cities, how we … Continue reading →

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Our Technology Changes Us

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Michael Batty

My current editorial in Environment and Planning B deals with the impact that the technologies we invent have on the very object that we are studying with the same technologies: using computers to study cities that are now composed of … Continue reading →

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