In 1995 Professor Mike Batty wrote a paper entitled ‘The Computable City’, the history of Digital Urban can be traced back to and indeed seen in the writing of the paper prepared for the 4th International Conference on Computers and Urban Planning and Urban Management in Melbourne.
In the paper Batty states that computers are changing the methods for understanding as well as changing the structure and dynamics of the city itself – it is this phenomenon that defines the
The interface to the then Virtual Bologna is pictured below:
With the ever advancing pace of technology it could be argued that we now have true virtual cities, cities that are inhabited using systems such as Second Life, shifting minute by minute into new mainfications of digital urban form.
We would argue that the
Written during a lunch break while away from the office and the blog on Jury Duty.