The Computable City

Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions

Michael Batty

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MIT Press
30 April 2024

Technology: general issues

How computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve.

How computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve.

At every stage in the history of computers and communications, it is safe to say we have been unable to predict what happens next. When computers first appeared nearly seventy-five years ago, primitive computer models were used to help understand and plan cities, but as computers became faster, smaller, more powerful, and ever more ubiquitous, cities themselves began to embrace them. As a result, the smart city emerged. In The Computable City, Michael Batty investigates the circularity of this peculiar evolution- how computers and communications changed the very nature of our city models, which, in turn, are used to simulate systems composed of those same computers.

Batty first charts the origins of computers and examines how our computational urban models have developed and how they have been enriched by computer graphics. He then explores the sequence of digital revolutions and how they are converging, focusing on continual changes in new technologies, as well as the twenty-first-century surge in social media, platform economies, and the planning of the smart city. He concludes by revisiting the digital transformation as it continues to confound us, with the understanding that the city, now a high-frequency twenty-four-hour version of itself, changes our understanding of what is possible.

By: Michael Batty
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547574
ISBN 10: 0262547570
Pages: 536
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and a Turing Fellow in the Alan Turing Institute. He is the author of Inventing Future Cities, The New Science of Cities, and Cities and Complexity (all MIT Press). He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and the Royal Society (FRS) and was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2004. He was made a Fellow of the Geographical Society of China in 2022.

Reviews for The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions

“As artificial intelligence is thrusted upon us, this book provides urbanists, planners, and futurists with a timely reflection on the convergence between computers, information, and cities. . . . This book is the first comprehensive guide to the social, technological, and physical aspects of computable cities, providing insights into urban futures."" —Journal of the American Planning Association