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PAIR distinguished lecture series : developing a science of cities

In the lecture, Prof. Batty gave an overview of the development of the science of cities in the last 50 years. Drawing on the system approach and complex theory, he explained that urban science involves top-down and bottom-up thinking; it is a systematic, complex and evolving discipline built on knowledge in social physics, economics, transportation and numerous scientific methods that yield theories. He illustrated this with city morphology examples from the UK and the Greater Bay Areas (GBA) generated by large-scale computer models. At the end of the lecture, Prof. Batty described some challenges with fractal geometry, size and scaling, networks, and building models currently faced by the field, and he suggested the way forward for the discipline.
Event date: 01/09/2023
Speaker: Prof. Michael Batty
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: City planning City planning -- Data processing
Resource Type:: Video

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How to Solve the Housing Crisis

This video discusses pros and cons of building higher, from the both technical and cost perspectives.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Building -- Estimates Skyscrapers Housing City planning Tall buildings
Resource Type:: Video

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Why Build Higher?

This video discusses the topic of urban sprawl and the environmental and social impact if a city is expanding too fast

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Cities towns -- Growth Housing policy Buildings -- Height restrictions City planning
Resource Type:: Video

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Urbanization and the future of cities

About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialization and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Cities towns -- Growth City planning
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