Michael Batty

Michael Batty CBE FBA FRS FAcSS
Michael Batty
Born	(1945-01-11) 11 January 1945 (age 79) Liverpool
Occupation	Urban Planner & Geographer
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Manchester (BA, 1966) University of Wales (PhD, 1984)

Michael Batty

Michael Batty was born in Liverpool and educated at Northway County Primary School[5] from 1950 to 1956 and then at

• Bartlett Professor of Planning in the Bartlett School at
  Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis(CASA). From 1995 to 2003, he was professor of spatial analysis and planning, holding a joint appointment between the department of geography and the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL. In 2003 Mike became Bartlett Professor of Planning, succeeding Professor Sir Peter Hall
  .
• Visiting distinguished professor at Arizona State University.^[8]
• Honorary professor at Cardiff University.^[9]
• Distinguished Vice Chancellor's Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Distinguished professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.^[10]

Academic career

He began his academic career in the

His research has focussed on the development of analytical methods and computer models for simulating the structure of cities and regions. Early work involved aggregate land use transport models which are summarised in his first book Urban Modelling.[13] After this early work, he focused on more visual representations of cities and their models and some of these were represented in his second book Microcomputer Graphics.^[14] With Paul Longley, he published Fractal Cities.^[15] This work established the idea that cities might be regarded as the outcome of self-similar fractal processes generating structure from the bottom up. His work on complexity theory in urban analysis and planning is the focus of his book Cities and Complexity,^[16] a summary of which is available on his ComplexCity web site.^[17] His book The New Science of Cities.^[18] ties many of the ideas together, developing the notion that it is flows rather than locations that are key to an understanding not only of cities but also the processes for their design and planning. His most recent book Inventing Future Cities was published by MIT Press in 2018 and focuses on the idea that we can invent the future with respect to cities but can never predict them.

He has edited several volumes, most recently Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems^[19] and Virtual Geographic Environments.^[20]

Details of his publications are available from his curriculum vita^[21] and on his personal web pages.^{[22] [23]}

Memberships and Fellowships

Learned Societies: He has been elected a

Professional Institutes: He has been a Member and now Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1971, and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport since 1984. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1972.

Past Roles

He has recently acted as: Member of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information – APPSI, Chair of the

At Cardiff, he was a Member of the Computer Board for British Universities and Research Councils, now JISC (1988–1990), a Member of the SERC (Science and Engineering Research Council) Transport Committee (1982–1985), Chair (1980–1982), then vice-chair (1982–1984) of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Environment and Planning Committee, and chair of the Conference of Heads of Planning Schools (CHOPS) 1986–1980.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

References

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