Complexity, Scaling and Cities

Speaker: Mike Batty
Title: Complexity, Scaling and Cities
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
Category: Talk

While in the past, systems were often understood as static, controllable, and well-defined, new research reveals that many systems are chaotically dynamic and unclassifiable. In this seminar, Mike Batty of the University College London Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis explains how these new ideas are increasingly being applied to cities and are changing the ways in which we design and invent urban futures.

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