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Professor Michael Batty at Tedx London Cities 2.0 Series
Professor Michael Batty at Tedx London Cities 2.0 Series. 13 December 2013. On Friday December 6th CASA's Mike Batty presented aTEDxLondon talk in the City 2.0 series entitled “When all the world’s a city: defining future cities”. The event…
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Hacking the Smart City
Hacking the Smart City. 13 November 2013. CASA held its first hackathon on 7-9 Nov at UCL as part of ESRC’s Festival of Social Science and the Talisman project. CASA researchers Steven Gray, Richard Milton, Ed Manley and James Cheshire were part…
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Life in the City is Essentially One Giant Math Problem
Life in the City is Essentially One Giant Math Problem. 1 May 2013. Mike Batty (CASA), Geoff West, Luis Bettencourt and Jose Lobo at the Santa Fe Institute, and Steve Koonin at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU are quoted in Jo…
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Smart Cities, Network Effects, and the Next Generation of Planning
Smart Cities, Network Effects, and the Next Generation of Planning. 6 March 2013. During Mike Batty's recent trip to the US he was interviewed by Matt Ball from the Informed Infrastructure website about Smart Cities, Network Effects and the Next…
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CASA part of Mayor's ‘Smart London’ board
CASA part of Mayor's ‘Smart London’ board. 4 March 2013. The Mayor of London has announced a top line-up of experts including leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs to develop a ‘Smart London’ vision that puts technological…
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Another CASA PhD: Congratulations Fabian Neuhaus
Another CASA PhD: Congratulations Fabian Neuhaus. 19 February 2013. CASA's latest graduate, Fabian Neuhaus, successfully defended his PhD yesterday. His thesis, entitled "Urban Rhythms: Habitus and Emergent Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of the City",…
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CASA’s Prof Michael Batty awarded the “Nobel prize” of geography
CASA’s Prof Michael Batty awarded the “Nobel prize” of geography. 18 February 2013. Chair of CASA and Fellow of the British Academy, Prof Michael Batty, has been awarded the prestigious Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud,…
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The 14th Annual Dangermond Lecture at UCSB
The 14th Annual Dangermond Lecture at UCSB. 7 February 2013. Mike Batty presented the 14th lecture in the series endowed by Jack and Laura Dangermond, the President and Vice President and Founders of the world’s largest GIS software company ESRI,…
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Dr Hannah Fry wins Provost's Public Engager of the Year award
Dr Hannah Fry wins Provost's Public Engager of the Year award. 1 February 2013. CASA'S Dr Hannah Fry (Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities) was named the winner of this year's Provost's Public Engager of the Year award on Wednesday 30th January.…
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Social Physics in the Big City
Social Physics in the Big City. 14 December 2012. Martin Austwick's recent Lunch Hour Lecture "Social Physics in the Big City" received a great review from Clare Ryan in the new UCL Events Blog. His lecture was all about applying mathematical…
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