LSGI & SCRI Distinguished Lecture Series: More than One Twin: Multiple Digital Twins in City Planning

Professor Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, and Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s with his recent publications reflecting recent developments in urban science in Cities and Complexity (2005), The New Science of Cities (2013), and Inventing Future Cities (2018) all from The MIT Press. His recent book The Computable City (2023) is a history of how computers and digital technologies have and are changing the form and function of cities. From 1979 to 1990, he was Professor of Town Planning and Dean of the School of Environmental Design at the University of Wales at Cardiff and then from 1990-1995, Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Royal Society (FRS), and the Academy of Social Sciences. He was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2004. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (2015) and the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He has been the editor of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, since 1982. He is an overseas member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.