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Author Archives: Michael Batty
Financial Footprints: Transactions in Real Time
Material and people flows in cities show atoms are bonded together but money and information flows have much greater resonance. The great challenge is not only to build good economic flow models but first to observe and measure them. Pioneering … Continue reading
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Flows Binding People Together in London
Joan Serras in CASA is visualising some excellent flow data on the use of 114,000 pubic buses in London over a 24 hour period. Watch his previous Vimeo clip. Soon we will post Jon Reades visulizations of flows on subways … Continue reading
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Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age
A new book on complexity and cities edited by Juval Portugali, Han Meyer, Egbert Stolk and Ekim Tan with the intriguing title that what we do has come of age. Well maybe, maybe not, I leave you to be the … Continue reading
Spatial Interaction
Nothing like a lecture course to force you to publish digital copies of what one has written. Retrieved a 2 page article, more an entry, on spatial interaction from the Encyclopaedia of Geographic Information Science edited by Karen Kemp, Sage, … Continue reading
Simulating Infectious Diseases in Large Cities
We published quite a high profile paper this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Anders Johansson, myself and colleagues wrote a speculative paper on how to generalise the dynamics of SIR (spatial epidemics) models from pedestrian crowding models as part … Continue reading