Meet the editor
Michael Batty, CBE 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 visualization since the 1970s. In 2015 he received the Founders Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his work on the science of cities and in September 2016 he was awarded the Senior Scientific Award by the Complex Systems Society or his long standing scientific career in the fields of Geography, Urban Modelling, Dynamic Systems.