第171期可持续发展沙龙系列研讨课

Smart cities and big data—modelling transport flows in London

时间：2016年9月9日 （星期五）18：30-20：00

地点：同济大学四平路校区文远楼 219会议室

主讲人：Prof. Michael Batty

主持人：吴志强 教授

主讲人简介：

        Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity(MIT Press, 2005) which won the Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011, and most recently The New Science of Cities(MIT Press, 2013).

        He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the Royal Society (FRS), was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2004 and the 2013 recipient of the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud (generally known as the' Nobel de Géographie'). Last year 2015 hereceived the Founders Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his work onthe science of cities.

        His research group is working on simulating long term structural change and dynamics in cities as well as their visualisation. Prior to his current position, he was Professor of City Planning and Dean at the University of Wales at Cardiff and then Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the State University of New York at Buffalo.