PAIR cordially invites you to join our Distinguished Lecture on 1 September 2023 (Friday) at 3:00–4:30pm (HK Time) on PolyU campus and via Zoom. The lecture “Developing a Science of Cities” will be delivered by Prof. Michael BATTY, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and Fellow in the Alan Turing Institute.
Prof. Batty is amongst the most highly-cited urban planners worldwide, contributing significantly to urban design and planning as well as related technology development with his influential publications, extensive research works and global network engagements. Prof. Batty’s excellence in the field has been recognised nationally and internationally by many awards as well as fellowships. Among the many honours, he received the 2013 Vautrin Lud Prize (as known as the “Nobel” for Geography).
In the lecture, Prof. Batty will share on the rudiments of a science of cities building on ideas in social physics, economics, transportation and a wide array of techniques and tools that are being developed using new methods of computation and big data. He will illustrate how large scale computer models that are now being built for systems of cities. Prof. Bay will also speculate on some of the dilemmas of prediction that dominate the field and discuss the way forward for our urban future.
Don’t miss the chance to learn from distinguished scholar!
Find out more and register at: https://polyu.hk/ZcQjg
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