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    Towards a Science of Cities

    Posted on Saturday 16 February 2013 by Michael Batty

    In 1999, Jeff Kenworthy & colleagues (Laube & Zeibots) published a paper entitled “Towards a Science of Cities“. Jeff recently drew my attention to this and I post it here as it is key to many indicators of city structure … Continue reading →

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    Allometry, Biology, Flows, Fluxes, location, Morphology, Transport

    Urban Transformations and Urban Structure

    Posted on Thursday 15 November 2012 by Michael Batty

    Check out Luc D’Acci’s Blog. He has some very interesting projects on mega cities and the internal structure of cities which blends lots of ideas from economics and complexity theory with spatial structures and patterns. Some papers are downloadable

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    Complex Systems, location, Morphology, Social Physics, Urban Dynamics

    Spatial Interaction

    Posted on Friday 20 January 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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    Flows, Fluxes, location, SpatialInteraction, Urban (LUTI) Models

    Simulating Employment Location

    Posted on Sunday 8 January 2012 by Michael Batty

    As 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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    location, Simulation, SpatialInteraction, Urban (LUTI) Models

    Foursquare – Location Based Gaming

    Posted on Wednesday 28 December 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Gaming at large scale with the city as the play field has gathered pace with its community adapting new tools and technologies in the social networking domain. The likes of Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare are offering platforms additional gameplay ide…

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    Foursquare, Game, location

    Foursquare – Location Based Gaming

    Posted on Wednesday 28 December 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Gaming at large scale with the city as the play field has gathered pace with its community adapting new tools and technologies in the social networking domain. The likes of Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare are offering platforms additional gameplay ide…

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    Foursquare, Game, location

    Spatial Multi-Objective Land Use Optimization

    Posted on Monday 7 November 2011 by Michael Batty

    My 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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    design, location, Optimisation, Policy Analysis

    Ravenstein’s Flow Map

    Posted on Saturday 29 October 2011 by Michael Batty

    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 did … Continue reading →

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    Flows, Fluxes, location, networks, SpatialInteraction

    Book Swap – Story Networking

    Posted on Tuesday 20 September 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    Books still carry an aura of mistic knowledge only accessible to whom dares to move beyond the cover and through the sea of pages with waves of sentences down to the discovery of words.There is only little the outsider can understand from a distance, i…

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    Book, location, social network

    Cellular Urban Regeneration

    Posted on Wednesday 22 June 2011 by Michael Batty

    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 the … Continue reading →

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    location, Transport, Urban Dynamics

    Movements from Point Data

    Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2011 by Michael Batty

    Constructing flows from where people are located at different points in time is usually hard and often impossible for large populations. You can only do it for individuals if you know the actual locations and order visited: posted on vimeo, … Continue reading →

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    Flows, Fluxes, location, networks

    London’s Rail System as a Network

    Posted on Thursday 2 June 2011 by Jon Reades

    As many of you know, for quite some time I’ve been wrestling with a massive data set from TfL — I make it that I have 120 million trip segments across 88 million identifiable journeys in the course of just …

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    COSMIC, england, Front, location, london, networks, Public Transit, visualisation

    Specialisation & Internationalisation

    Posted on Thursday 2 June 2011 by Jon Reades

    Historically, the downtown of major cities is where the most highly-skilled and highly-remunerated work was done — think: Wall Street, the City, etc. But as space has run out in the core, secondary centres such as Canary Wharf and La …

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    COSMIC, economics, firms, gse, location, telecoms

    Specialisation & Internationalisation

    Posted on Thursday 2 June 2011 by Jon Reades

    Historically, the downtown of major cities is where the most highly-skilled and highly-remunerated work was done — think: Wall Street, the City, etc. But as space has run out in the core, secondary centres such as Canary Wharf and La …

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    COSMIC, economics, england, firms, gse, location, telecoms

    Wanderlust – Visual Stories

    Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2011 by Fabian Neuhaus

    To pick up on the topic discussed herre last week with the Wanderlust story app for location based narratives an other ‘Wanderlust’ interpretation using visual imagery or visual narratives possibly. This one here is a visual version traveling through C…

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    location, visualisation

    The Travelling Football Clubs of London

    Posted on Friday 4 March 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

    Two interesting maps of football clubs and London: First, Dean of The Londonist has mapped out the various locations of London’s football clubs over time. Many of them have moved…

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    clubs, football, location, Londonist, sport, temporal

    Glow: How do you feel today?

    Posted on Thursday 10 June 2010 by GIS+AR

    Sometimes we read articles about which countries are the top 10 happiest countries in the world. This is a very general list that reflects year-round happiness. How about mapping your mood in real time, and comparing it with other people? Using an au…

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    application, augmented reality, location, london, map

    Glow: How do you feel today?

    Posted on Thursday 10 June 2010 by GIS+AR

    Sometimes we read articles about which countries are the top 10 happiest countries in the world. This is a very general list that reflects year-round happiness. How about mapping your mood in real time, and comparing it with other people? Using an au…

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    application, augmented reality, location, london, map

    Glow: How do you feel today?

    Posted on Thursday 10 June 2010 by GIS+AR

    Sometimes we read articles about which countries are the top 10 happiest countries in the world. This is a very general list that reflects year-round happiness. How about mapping your mood in real time, and comparing it with other people? Using an au…

    Continue reading »
    application, augmented reality, location, london, map

    Glow: How do you feel today?

    Posted on Thursday 10 June 2010 by GIS+AR

    Sometimes we read articles about which countries are the top 10 happiest countries in the world. This is a very general list that reflects year-round happiness. How about mapping your mood in real time, and comparing it with other people? Using an au…

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    application, augmented reality, location, london, map

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