The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).

Category: Social Physics

The Dangermond Lecture

Posted on Thursday 7 February 2013 by Michael Batty

Today/this date I give/gave the Dangermond Lecture at University of California Santa Barbara on Explaining the Dynamics of City Size. Here is the PDF and there is a post on the CASA web site with more links to related work, … Continue reading →

Allometry, Animations, Complex Systems, Fractal Geometries, Scaling, Social Physics

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

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

More Complexity: What von Neumann said to Shannon

Posted on Saturday 5 November 2011 by Michael Batty

Martin Austwick has an interesting piece on defining complexity which is what I am trying to do in my Spatial Complexity course. If you click on the link to the left or here, there is a small comment about entropy … Continue reading →

Complex Systems, entropy, Scaling, Social Physics

Spatial Complexity

Posted on Tuesday 18 October 2011 by Michael Batty

Started my new lecture course on Spatial Complexity at Arizona State University. It’s killing me doing relatively new stuff day after day. Lectures are posted after given: Seven so far, the last on Wednesday (2/11) (at http://www.spatialcom…

Complex Systems, Evolution, Scaling, Social Physics

Ranks of Flows: Network Scaling

Posted on Sunday 7 August 2011 by Michael Batty

The TfL Oyster Card Tube and Train flow volumes over 24 hrs at 666 (don’t worry about the number) hubs reveal classic diurnal peaks but the profiles are far from power laws. If anything, they are lognormal. Watch the Vimeo Clip. … Continue reading →

Flows, Fluxes, networks, Social Physics, Transport

What Is Social Physics?

Posted on Tuesday 26 July 2011 by Michael Batty

Several previous posts suggest that our Science of Cities is more like Biology than Physics but Social Physics has a long history. CASA’s Martin Austwick recently gave an impromptu review from Quetelet’s original definition to Comte’s rebuttal. Useful definitions from Stewart … Continue reading →

Scaling, Social Physics

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