activity
19982023
most citedStructure of urban movements: polycentric activity and entangled hierarchical flows

461 citations · 3k across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

31 papers

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with AI and Street-level Imagery

Fan Zhang, Arianna Salazar Miranda, Fábio Duarte +6

The visual dimension of cities has been a fundamental subject in urban studies, since the pioneering work of scholars such as Sitte, Lynch, Arnheim, and Jacobs. Several decades lat…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 21 cited

Inferring urban polycentricity from the variability in human mobility patterns

Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, Chen Zhong, Michael Batty +2

The polycentric city model has gained popularity in spatial planning policy, since it is believed to overcome some of the problems often present in monocentric metropolises, rangin…

cs.CY2021★ 1 cited

Urban Analytics: History, Trajectory, and Critique

Geoff Boeing, Michael Batty, Shan Jiang +1

Urban analytics combines spatial analysis, statistics, computer science, and urban planning to understand and shape city futures. While it promises better policymaking insights, co…

physics.soc-ph2021

Estimating public transport congestion in UK urban areas with open transport models

Juste Raimbault, Michael Batty

Operational urban transport models require to gather heterogeneous sets of data and often integrate different sub-models. Their systematic validation and reproducible application t…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 74 cited

Urbanization and Economic Complexity

Riccardo Di Clemente, Emanuele Strano, Michael Batty

Urbanization plays a crucial role in the economic development of every country. The mutual relationship between the urbanization of any country and its economic productive structur…

physics.soc-ph2019

Evidence for localization and urbanization economies in urban scaling

Somwrita Sarkar, Elsa Arcaute, Erez Hatna +3

We study the scaling of (i) numbers of workers and aggregate incomes by occupational categories against city size, and (ii) total incomes against numbers of workers in different oc…