Category Archives: Complex Systems

Complexity and All Things Like That

The City as a Scalable Network

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Michael Batty

Geoff West of the Santa Fe Institute talks about scaling, networks and cities, emphasizing  that cities scale more than proportionately with respect to creative pursuits,  inventions, patents, specialist services and  income. Watch the video on YouTube.

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Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Michael Batty

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 →

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The City Size Debate Goes on Forever

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Michael Batty

Brian Berry has followed up his Cities as Systems within Systems of Cities paper published in 1964 in the Papers & Proceedings of the Regional Science Association with a great review of the city size debate in  Current Research in … Continue reading →

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Města, komplexita a vznikající řád

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Michael Batty

Well I only know what it means because others translated it for me – click left image for it in Czech and here for it in English as I posted it once before as Cities, Complexity and Emergent Order. The … Continue reading →

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Complexity in Regional Science: The Alonso Lecture

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Michael Batty

Here is my lecture given at the North American Regional Science Association Annual Conference in Miami, 11th Nov 2011. It is as good a summary as I can muster of complexity theory applied to cities & regions. I focus on … Continue reading →

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