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“Cities are no longer regarded as being disordered systems. Beneath the apparent chaos and diversity of physical form, there is strong order and a pattern that emerges from the myriad of decisions and processes required for a city to develop and expand physically.” Michael Batty
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Seems like work on I-O and supply chains in & between cities & regions has stalled but paper by Dogna at al. in NPJ Urban Sustainability takes it forward. Builds on Hidalgo, Hausmann, Pietronero work nature.com/articles/s42949-0… and commentary pnas.org/post/journal-club/c…
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We now have a @SiCities hub dedicated to systems thinking in the context of urban design and development, you can join here: bit.ly/Sicitieshub
Linkedin: bit.ly/sicitieslinkedin
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Understanding the spatial structure of cities can help deliver policy priorities.
Dani Arribas-Bell from @LivUni and @turinginst talks about his work with the National Land Data Programme and how new forms of data can improve our understanding of cities:
landusedialogues.gov.uk/2023…
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Cities are growing as much by merging as by sprawling or growing into the third dimension. With James Cheshire, we paint a picture of what the world might look like as it heads towards one big ‘city’, see The Conversation, bit.ly/3tSiTJF
ALT https://theconversation.com/the-era-of-the-megalopolis-how-the-worlds-cities-are-merging-193424
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Introducing a new journal
Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology
bit.ly/3KY2yL7
My own short article in the Perspectives section “The shape of future cities: Three speculations” open access here bit.ly/3Sy7hGU
ALT https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/27541231221113945
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Latest issue of @envplanb includes an editorial by @jmichaelbatty on urban form and function that is just a treat... This is decades of work on cities distilled in five pages:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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NEW BOOK | This wonderful collaboration between @SusanParnell16 & Sylvia Croese brought together different but interrelated projects that they have both worked on over the past few years.
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Publication of the @UNHABITAT Envisaging the Future of Cities world cities 2022 report. An impressive feat unhabitat.org/sites/default/…
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The #worldcitiessummit is happening soon & #RCities is excited to be a strategic partner! Together w global leaders & experts we will explore how cities can emerge stronger & more resilient through prolonged & unpredictable disruptions.
Access our agenda: resilientcitiesnetwork.org/u…
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#ClimateAction, justice, employment, resilience?
What makes your city liveable?
Dr Ingolf Dietrich from Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development allows us to dream of a better future in this piece via @Urbanet_info
#WUF11 urbanet.info/transforming-ci…
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More than One Digital Twin: yesterday talk HafenCity Universitat Hamburg Digital Twins bit.ly/3QpzUVo NO POWERPOINT. Like the old days even before overhead slides. Long story. For those there, apologies here PDF to download bit.ly/3mNgEnh
ALT http://spatialcomplexity.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/files/2022/06/Batty-Hamburg-Lecture.pdf
Auckland launch of the Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators Report
vimeo.com/705971286
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Clémentine Cottineau invited me to talk (Mon 9 May 2pm BST & 3pm CET) at TU Delft on Forrester’s contribution to urban modelling. A history lesson. PDF here. bit.ly/3vUvKgj Different world back then. Seminar fre, register at: bit.ly/3kTsnzY
ALT http://spatialcomplexity.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/files/2022/05/Forrester-Talk-Batty-Delft.pdf
Check out the interesting format of this article!
Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too? | US news | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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@envplanb issue #3 is now published with a Free Access editorial. Editors @LindaMSee and @AndyCrooks discuss "Leveraging Street Level Imagery for Urban Planning" followed by 22 research articles (4 Open Access). Enjoy them all here👇 journals.sagepub.com/toc/epb…
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In collaboration with @FloriadeExpo, a major international exhibition in Netherlands, @SiAmsterdamHub will be running a hybrid workshop using our ecosystems canvas as a tool for developing the kind of systemic awareness needed to grow green cities. Join bit.ly/3sNDBut – at Poplar, London
Make sure to sign up for our next event in the Si Cities Series!! 👇
@Sys_innovation @silondonhub
#cities #systemsthinking #systemsinnovation #regeneration
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Today starts something new for the Si Network, a 6-week multi-hub event series exploring what systems innovation means for cities - their wicked challenges and transformative innovation. Hope you can join us for this, start here > bit.ly/3BIjy3C
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The second event in our series on systems innovation for cities is available for RSVP - in this workshop we will be "Re-thinking Traffic with the Iceberg Model" hosted by Si Istanbul Hub bit.ly/3HzXnxQ – at Poplar, London
