Michael Batty | |
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 Michael Batty | |
| Born | 11 January 1945 |
| Occupation | Urban Planner & Geographer |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester (BA, 1966) University of Wales (PhD, 1984) |
Michael Batty CBE FBA FRS FAcSS (born 11 January 1945) is a British academic currently appointed as Bartlett Professor of Planning in The Bartlett at University College London. His work spans the fields of urban planning, geography and spatial data science.[1][2] He has been Director—now Chairman—of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995.[3] His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity, the same prize a second time for his book The New Science of Cities in 2017–2018, the University Consortium GIS Research Award in 2012,[4] and the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the so-called 'Nobel for geography', in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2016, the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). He also received the Senior Scholar Award of the Complex Systems Society in September 2016.
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- ^ "UCL Academic Honour KPI Summary Table". Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ^ "UCL CASA Web Home Page". Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Mike Batty Web Page". Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.