Category Archives: Location

Areal distributions

Spatial Interaction

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Michael Batty

Tweet 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, … Continue reading →

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Simulating Employment Location

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Michael Batty

TweetAs part of our ARCADIA project, we are taking employment forecasts for different sectors from Cambridge Econometrics input-output model, and then simulating location using two-stage regression. This in turn provides the inputs to our LUTI models. There is detail of the … Continue reading →

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Spatial Multi-Objective Land Use Optimization

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Michael Batty

TweetMy first contribution, albeit a very minor one, to this area for a very long time; with Kai Cao and others from CUHK and elsewhere. Read our article now online at IJGIS. To an extent, this is an area not well represented here … Continue reading →

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Ravenstein’s Flow Map

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Amazing what you discover when you search the web. Couldn’t find Ravenstein’s 1888 map that Waldo Tobler sent me as a detailed scan. Its framed in my room at UCL and somewhere on the web I know. What I … Continue reading →

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Cellular Urban Regeneration

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Most of urban dynamics involve activities that are in situ already. Here we present a populist foray into simulating the impact of regeneration on Stratford (the site of the Olympics Games) in east London using our Tyndall LUTI model. Read … Continue reading →

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