Category Archives: Smart Cities

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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Extreme MegaCities

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Michael Batty

James Canton in a prescient article in Significance argues that cities will diversify as they get larger. Like Dobbs & Remes in their McKinsey report, he argues there is effectively no limit on their growth. At least not in terms … Continue reading →

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BitCity

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Michael Batty

BitCity tomorrow (3rd November) at Columbia (NYC). Click left for my presentation on Cities as Flow Systems. Talks about CASA’s Oyster Card, Bikes, Networks, and LUTI model projects and how they can be used to look at fractured networks. Thanks … Continue reading →

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Smarter Cities

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Michael Batty

[mp3 url=’http://blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/~sjg/mike/232316472.mp3′] Use the Player Bar above for Audio. A Webinar to the Urban Systems Collaborative organized by the IBM Smart Cities Group in Armonk, NY focusing on CASA’s work on tracking, measuring, modeling and visualizing city systems. For a glance at … Continue reading →

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The Urban Nervous System

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Michael Batty

The focus is shifting to real time analysis of city systems with many links between urban mobility, energy and ICT. Trantopoulos, Schlapfer and Helbing suggest that the nervous system of a city be explored using ‘Techno-Social Reality Mining’. References to … Continue reading →

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