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50
National Ranking
8

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Citations
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael Batty is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Engineering, with a significant focus on Transportation, Economics and Econometrics, Building and Construction, Global and Planetary Change, and Media Technology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics related to urban environments and spatial analysis. Key areas of study include:

  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization

Michael Batty has published extensively. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cities
  • Urban Studies

Recent selected papers by Michael Batty feature topics concerning urban analytics, digital twins, and post-pandemic urbanism. Notable works are:

  • "The Coronavirus crisis: What will the post-pandemic city look like?", 2020, Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • "Smart cities, big data and urban policy: Towards urban analytics for the long run", 2020, Cities
  • "The role of complexity for digital twins of cities", 2023, Nature Computational Science
  • "Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective", 2020, Journal of Urban Technology
  • "Future Developments in Geographical Agent-Based Models: Challenges and Opportunities", 2020, Geographical Analysis

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Carlo Ratti
  • Elsa Arcaute
  • Richard Milton
  • Wenzhong Shi
  • Mei-Po Kwan

Michael Batty has published books with various presses, expanding on themes in urban informatics and planning. These include:

  • "Urban Informatics", 2021, Springer International Publishing
  • "The Computable City", 2024, The MIT Press
  • "City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures", 2023, Ohio State University Press
  • "City Information Modelling", 2024, Urban sustainability

In recognition of their contributions, the scientist was awarded the fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Smart cities of the future

    M. Batty;K. W. Axhausen;F. Giannotti;A. Pozdnoukhov

  • Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function

    Michael Batty;Paul Longley

  • Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

    Michael Batty

  • The size, scale, and shape of cities.

    Michael Batty

  • The New Science of Cities

    Michael Batty

  • Big data, smart cities and city planning:

    Michael Batty

  • Modeling urban dynamics through GIS-based cellular automata

    M. Batty;Yichun Xie;Zhanli Sun

  • From Cells to Cities

    M Batty;Yichun Xie

  • Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities Through Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models and Fractals

    M Batty

  • Detecting the dynamics of urban structure through spatial network analysis

    Chen Zhong;Stefan Müller Arisona;Xianfeng Huang;Michael Batty

  • Key challenges in agent-based modelling for geo-spatial simulation

    Andrew Crooks;Christian Castle;Michael Batty

  • Exploring isovist fields: space and shape in architectural and urban morphology

    Michael Batty

  • Agent-based Models of Geographical Systems

    Alison J. Heppenstall;Andrew T. Crooks;Linda M. See;Michael Batty

  • Structure of Urban Movements: Polycentric Activity and Entangled Hierarchical Flows

    Camille Roth;Soong Moon Kang;Michael Batty;Marc Barthélemy;Marc Barthélemy

  • Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems

    Oliver O’Brien;James Cheshire;Michael Batty

  • Laws of population growth

    Hernán D. Rozenfeld;Diego Rybski;José S. Andrade;Michael Batty

  • Urban Systems as Cellular Automata

    M Batty;H Couclelis;M Eichen

  • Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws

    Elsa Arcaute;Erez Hatna;Peter Ferguson;Hyejin Youn;Hyejin Youn

  • Building a science of cities

    Michael Batty

  • Stochastic cellular automata modeling of urban land use dynamics: empirical development and estimation

    Cláudia Maria de Almeida;Michael Batty;Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro;Gilberto Câmara

  • Spatial analysis: Modelling in a GIS environment

    Paul Longley;Michael Batty

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Longley
Paul A. Longley University College London
Andrew Crooks
Andrew Crooks University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson Newcastle University
Jim W. Hall
Jim W. Hall University of Oxford
A-Xing Zhu
A-Xing Zhu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bin Jiang
Bin Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Samuel L. Braunstein
Samuel L. Braunstein University of York
Marc Barthelemy
Marc Barthelemy L'Institut de physique théorique
Hui Lin
Hui Lin Jiangxi Normal University
Min Chen
Min Chen South China University of Technology

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