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CASA Working Paper 170
CASA Working Paper 170. 8 November 2011. Building a Science of Cities. Our understanding of cities is being transformed by new approaches from the complexity sciences (Batty, 2005). Here we review progress, sketching the background beginning with…
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Virtual Geographic Environments
Virtual Geographic Environments. 4 October 2011. Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and "virtual geographies.". Contributions by leading members of the…
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Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment
Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment. 4 October 2011. The book brings together writings on temporal aspects of the city, covering aspects from time and space to embodiment and narratives. In addition to the main text it also…
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Cities and Complexity
Cities and Complexity. 4 October 2011. As urban planning moves from a centralized, top-down approach to a decentralized, bottom-up perspective, our conception of urban systems is changing. In Cities and Complexity, Michael Batty offers a…
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Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems
Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems. 4 October 2011. This unique book brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based modelling (ABM) within geo-graphical systems.…
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Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary education for a complex world
Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary education for a complex world. 4 October 2011. Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power - for individuals, organizations, cities, regions and countries. This book offers a map showing the…
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CASA Working Paper 167
CASA Working Paper 167. 6 July 2011. A Note on the Bass Model Applied to Retail Dynamics. There are two variants of the retail model which are usual considered as distinct alternatives. A model developed by Bass which is widely applied in the…
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CASA Working Paper 168
CASA Working Paper 168. 6 July 2011. The Humanities and Social Sciences in a Technological Age. The first task is to assert the core values of the humanities and the social sciences and then to explore the challenges and opportunities for these…
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CASA Working Paper 166
CASA Working Paper 166. 23 May 2011. A Generic Framework for Computational Spatial Modelling. In this paper, we develop a generic framework for comparing spatial models whose dynamics ranges from comparative static equilibrium structures to fully…
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CASA Working Paper 165
CASA Working Paper 165. 8 May 2011. Modeling Urban Growth: An Agent Based Microeconomic Approach to Urban Dynamics and Spatial Policy Simulation. Spatially explicit and dynamic urban growth models provide valuable simulations that encapsulate…
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