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DESCRIPTION:When All the World’s A City: Defining Cities in the Information
  Age\n\nBy Michael Batty\n\nUniversity College London\n\nDate: Jun 12\, 20
 25\n	Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM\n	Location: Online\n\nAttend online\n\nView po
 ster\n\n\nAbstract\n\nCities first emerged in the middle east some 6000 ye
 ars ago\, largely as a response to the markets that were formed to distrib
 ute the surplus production associated with the move to settled agriculture
 . But for much of the last 10\,000 years since our nomadic existence evolv
 ed into agriculture\, most cities have been small very rarely growing beyo
 nd one million in population. The industrial revolution changed all this d
 ue to new transportation technologies based on the internal combustion eng
 ine whence we could live at much further distances from their cores or mar
 kets. Cities began to sprawl\, fragment\, and fuse and it is no exaggerati
 on to say that by the end of this century\, we will all be living in citie
 s of one form or another. New information technologies continue to change 
 this picture and increasingly the physical form of cities is no longer is 
 the lodestone of what a city is. In this talk\, I will explore the notion 
 that cities and urbanisation are now underpinned by networks of many kinds
 \, and I will then illustrate how we can articulate changing definitions o
 f cities using information networks that let us see the concept of the cit
 y on many different levels.\n
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SUMMARY:MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Michael Batty
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/mcche-precision-convergen
 ce-webinar-series-michael-batty-365415
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