Category Archives: Visualisation

Planning Knowledge and Research

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Michael Batty

Here is a useful and interesting book on the nature of planning knowledge and research. My own contribution – click here to get the original PDF – is about scientific method and how theory and models pertain to the field … Continue reading →

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GeoComputation 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Michael Batty

2017 International Conference on GeoComputation: Celebrating 21 Years of GeoComputation 4-7 September at the University of Leeds Stan Openshaw and his colleagues set up the first meeting 21 years ago in Leeds and it returns there for its coming of age. … Continue reading →

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Then and Now

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Michael Batty

In November 1986 I visited SunYatSen University and gave a public lecture about Urban Modelling. China was a very different world then, no cars, no computers, no email, barely functioning electricity. And of course it was before laptops, networks, hand-held … Continue reading →

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