UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

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Direct Line: 020 7679 1781
Email Address: m.batty@ucl.ac.uk

CASA is run under the Directorship of Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning. He was previously Director of the SUNY Buffalo site of NCGIA (1990-1995) and was Professor and Head of the Department of City and Regional Planning in the University of Wales at Cardiff from 1979 until 1990.

He has Degrees from the University of Manchester (BA) and Wales (PhD), is a Fellow of the British Academy as well as a Fellow of the RTPI, CIT and RSA. His research is in the development of computer based technologies, specifically graphics-based and mathematical models for cities, and he has worked recently on applications of fractal geometry and cellular automata to urban structure.

He is the Editor of the journal Environment and Planning B and was awarded the CBE for 'services to geography' in the 2004 Birthday Honours List.

Michael Batty's recent books include:

GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modelling ESRI Press 2005
Cities and Complexity The MIT Press 2005
Advanced Spatial Analysis: The CASA book of GIS ESRI Press 2003
Spatial Analysis: Modelling in a GIS Environment Wiley 1996
Fractal Cities Academic Press 1996

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