Category Archives: Flows, Fluxes

About Networks, Flow Volumes, Graphs and Process Dynamics

The Laws of the City

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Michael Batty

A deluge of data makes cities laboratories for those seeking to run them better. Nice summary from Ludwig Siegele in this week’s Economist, online version I think. Merging smart cities and new scaling laws. And reference to the forthcoming meeting … Continue reading →

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Crowds, Congestion and Extreme Events

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Michael Batty

My talk at CPGIS this morning is about how we might use all our new flow data to build new models to explore how city systems fail. This is more a talk about what we would like to do, rather … Continue reading →

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Financial Footprints: Transactions in Real Time

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Michael Batty

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

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Michael Batty

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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Spatial Interaction

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Michael Batty

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 →

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