(John) Michael Batty CBE, FBA, FRS (born Month Day, 19??) is a British urban planner and geographer, and Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London (UCL) [1] where he founded, directed, and built up Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).[2] Although technically, his first name is officially John, he goes by the name of Michael or Mike.
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Mike's research has focussed on the development of computer models of cities and regions, and he has published many books and articles in this area, the most recent being:
Mike began his academic career in the University of Manchester in 1966 where he was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in Town and Country Planning. He then spent 10 years at the University of Reading as Research Assistant, Lecturer and Reader in Geography, before moving to the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (now the University of Cardiff), in 1979, where he was Professor of Town Planning. During this time, he acted as Head of Department, and Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design. In 1990, he moved to direct the United States of America National Science Foundation (NSF) National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) where he was a Professor of Geography.
Mike held several visiting appointments in computing, engineering, planning, and geography at the following Universities: University of Illinois; University of Melbourne; University of Hong Kong; University of Bristol; and, University of Michigan.
| Year awarded | Name of Award | Awarding organisation | Reason for award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Alonso Prize | Regional Science Association | Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005)[9] |
| 2004 | CBE | Services to geography | |
| 2002 | Innovation | Association of Geographic Information | |
| 1999 | Sir George Back Award | Royal Geographical Society | Contributions to national policy and practice in planning and city design |
| 1998 | Technological Progress | Association of Geographic Information |
| Name of student | Class of deegree | Year of completion | Thesis title | University affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan Smith | Ph.D. | 2011 | Polycentricity and Sustainable Urban Form: An IntraUrban Study of Accessibility, Employment and Travel Sustainability for the Strategic Planning of the London Region | University College London |
| Basak Demires Ozkul | Ph.D. | 2011 | Changing Settlement Patterns For Home and Work in England and Wales: 1981-2001 | University College London |
| Jon Reades | Ph.D. | 2011 | The Place of Telecommunications: Spatial Decision-Making by Firms in the Age of Global Communications | University College London |
| Yi Gong | Ph.D. | 2009 | Exploring Children's Movements: An Investigation of GPS Tracking in the Local Environment | University College London |
| Toofan Hagani | Ph.D. | 2009 | Complexity Theory, Fractal Geometry and the Nature of Urban Morphological Evolution | University College London |
| Lucas Fugueiredo | Ph.D. | 2009 | Continuity Lines, An Investigation of Urban Form Through Street Networks | University College London |
| Kazuki Nakamura | Ph.D. | 2009 | The Effect of Area-Wide Pedestrianisation on Town Centre Attractions | University College London |
| Martin Dodge | Ph.D. | 2008 | Understanding Cyberspace Cartographies: A Critical Analysis of Internet Infrastructure Mapping | University College London |
| Theodore Zamenopoulos | Ph.D. | 2008 | Design out of Complexity: A Mathematical Theory of Design as a Universal Property Of Organization | University College London |
| Victor Schinazi | Ph.D. | 2008 | Representing Space: The Development, Content and Accuracy of Mental Representations by the Blind and Visually Impaired | University College London |
| Andrew Crooks | Ph.D. | 2007 | Experimenting with Cities: Utilizing Agent-Based Models and GIS to Explore Urban Dynamics | University College London |
| Katerina Alexiou | Ph.D. | 2007 | Understanding Multi-Agent Design as Coordination | University College London |
| Ian Greatbatch | M.Phil. | 2007 | Issues in Retail Centre Definition | University College London |
| John Ward | Ph.D. | 2007 | Urban Movement - Models of Pedestrian Activity | University College London |
| Nancy Chin | Ph.D. | 2007 | Spatial Analysis and the Measurement of Urban Sprawl | University College London |
| Joana Margarida de Alimeida Simões | Ph.D. | 2007 | An Agent-Based Approach to Spatial Epidemics through GIS | University College London |
| Kampanart Piyathamrongchai | Ph.D. | 2006 | A Dynamic Settlement Simulation Model: Applications to Urban Growth in Thailand | University College London |
| Maria Attard | Ph.D. | 2006 | Coping with Change. The Problems of Adopting Sustainable Transport Policies in the Small Island State of Malta | University College London |
| Chao Li | Ph.D. | 2005 | Pedestrian WayFinding Using Mobile Devices | University College London |
| Naru Shiode | Ph.D. | 2005 | Information Spaces in Urban Society: Analyses of Real and Virtual Worlds and Utilisation of Cyberspaces | University College London |
| Daryl Lloyd | Ph.D. | 2005 | Uncertainty in Town Centre Definition | University College London |
| Joana Barros | Ph.D. | 2004 | Urban Growth in Latin American Cities: Exploring Urban Dynamics through Agent-Based Simulation | University College London |
| Kang-Rae Ma | Ph.D. | 2004 | The Impact of Urban Spatial Decentralisation on Jobshousing Imbalance | University College London |
| Sanjay Rana | Ph.D. | 2004 | Surface Networks: New Techniques for the Automated Extraction, Generalisation and Application | University College London |
| Paul Torrens | Ph.D. | 2003 | Simulating Sprawl: A Dynamic Entity-Based Approach to Modeling North American Urban Sprawl Using Cellular Automata and Multi-Agent Systems | University College London |
| Andy Hudson-Smith | Ph.D. | 2003 | Digitally Distributed Urban Environments: The Prospects for Online Planning | University College London |
| Nick Green | Ph.D. | 2002 | From Factories to Fine Art − The Origins and Evolution of East London's Artists' Agglomeration 1968−98 | University College London |
| Muki Haklay | Ph.D. | 2002 | Public Environmental Information Systems: Challenges and Perspectives | University College London |
| David O’Sullivan | Ph.D. | 2000 | Graph-based Cellular Automaton Models of Urban Spatial Processes | University College London |
(N.B. This table is a work in progress, there is much detail to add...)