Michael Batty

Interesting edited volume by Luca D’Acci Urban Scaling (Routledge, 2024). Paper by myself but I don’t have a PDF see my preprint …tialcomplexity.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/files/2024/12/… some of the book is downloadable. bizarre price.

Our paper “Participatory Design Based on Opinion Pooling”,  Philosophical Transactions A, 13 Nov 2024, ID:20240108 doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2… just published in the special issue devoted to collective complex systems. Download paper and editorial site – open access, I think

Cities are multidimensional networks based on physical and ethereal flows. It is urgent to transform the common currency of flows from from atoms to bits, but like other complex systems are almost invisible to our inquiries - see current EPB editorial. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

We had the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the journal Environment and Planning B in UCL on the 6th June 2024. A video of the talks from Longley, Batty, Steadman, Singleton and See. youtube.com/watch?v=Y7eyTY…

A Review of my new book The Computable City (MIT Press, 2024) #JAPAplanning @APA_Planning @CASAUCL @CitiesResearch

@MTJProf sorry the web address didnt work - try this one thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1047…

@MTJProf I first met Peter when he interviewed me in 1968 for a job as a research assistant at the university of reading where he had just become prof of geography - read my memoir - thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1047…

I’ll be raising a glass this evening to my late friend and mentor Professor Sir Peter Hall, urban planner and geographer extraordinaire, who we lost on this day ten years ago

📗 Inventing Future Cities ✍ @jmichaelbatty How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548656/

@dinomirMT @CASAUCL The recording is coming …. As soon as Bartlett comms edit it !! Mike

@CASAUCL @jmichaelbatty Is there a recording of talks? Awesome event, but hard to be there from around the globe!

CASA hosted a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. @jmichaelbatty has edited the journal since 1981. Images: Jon Reades and Joana Barros ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/…

Here Jeff Wood talks to me about my book The Computable City amazon.co.uk/Computable-Cit… and here is the podcast link again that you can now click on to launch youtube.com/watch?v=tZP0Ts…

Here Jeff Wood talks to me about my book The Computable City amazon.co.uk/Computable-Cit… and here is the podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZP0Tscmie8

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Environment and Planning B, tonight in UCL at 6pm ( Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre) 4-5 lightning talks about its history and future The issue is published at journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPB/current

The best books that show cities are not what they seem shepherd.com/best-books/cit…

Nice article led by Clementine Cottineau in current issue of Urban Studies: “The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy”, open access, get it here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… fascinating history of how ideas emerge and evolve

Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with AI and Street-Level Imagery – Fan Zhang et al. current issue, Annals AAG open source, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our edited book Urban Informatics (free download Springer link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…) has been translated into Chinese. Get it here ecsponline.com/goods.php?id=2…. The world turned upside down – English edition free, Chinese quite cheap but not free as far as I can tell !

Didn’t realise my Perspective paper in Nature Comp Sci on ‘Digital Twins in City Planning’ spatialcomplexity.info/files/2024/03/… is part of a special issue on DTs. Great resource. Lot of food for thought about the nature of what a DT is and isn't. nature.com/collections/fe…

@JulienMigozzi @ElsaArcaute @CASAUCL sorry - I had a book launch yesterday in my department - CASA UCL London - I hope to do something soon on Urban AI --- urbanai.fr

New book by @jmichaelbatty !!! @CASAUCL

I don’t usually get a publication date for my work but MIT Press released my new book The Computable Citytoday (26th March). Entirely composed of words! No equations in sight ! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547574/… and at Amazon amazon.co.uk/Computable-Cit…

City Information Modeling (CIM), editors Cheshmehzangi, Batty, Allam, & Jones – get it from the Springer Link if your library subscribes; link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… published in March 2024