Comments on: How Big Can Cities Grow? Guest Article by Mike Batty https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Mon, 23 May 2011 15:10:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sustainable Cities https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3096 Mon, 23 May 2011 15:10:39 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3096 Cities are responsible for around 75% of all energy consumption and 80% of all CO2 produced worldwide. But with the right technology cities can become more environmentally-friendly, increase the quality of life, and cut costs all at the same time. Sustainable Cities project at http://www.usa.siemens.com/sustainablecities/index.html illustrates how even small changes can make a big difference.

]]> By: Andy Turner https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3095 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:36:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3095 Nice one Sheila ๐Ÿ™‚ Remember this: “The network is the computer”. What are these things we call cities? Well, I don’t know if we can have anything more than a working definition. Perhaps a semantic /onotlogy or even a mereology expert can help us…

]]> By: IBM Lenovo Laptop Parts https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3094 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:49:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3094 Finally!

A blog worth reading on forward until the end! ๐Ÿ™‚ I really admire the wording in this blog, quite precise to the details but I just might change one or two things, never-the-less, bravo on well choiced words mate.. p.s.>> Thanks for sharing, I actually picked up some knowledge on this one ๐Ÿ™‚

-Have an amazing day!

]]> By: Sheila https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3092 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:06:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3092 Perhaps the linkages from/to cities to other cities and surrounding lands are more important than we think – proferred in the literature by the likes of Sassen etc.

An interesting take on global accessibility is mapped here

http://gem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gam/index.htm showing global accessibility…

]]> By: Erik Champion https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3091 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:20:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3091 Could mean the agora as a type or this
http://www.grisel.net/roman_agora.htm

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3090 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:24:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3090 “Roman agora” ????? did he mean Roman Forum or Greek รgora? that is a impressive mistake for the head of CASA.

]]> By: Andy Turner https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3089 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:25:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3089 There is an element of MAUP in all this, so I sort of agree with you villemm. There is also a problem of defining what a city is I think is pretty open ended.

Looking at the skyline is only one part of building volume. There is a world going on underground and in many cities both the transport infrastucture and building space extends far underground. The physical limits for this do depend on current technology as Mike articulates.

One further related thought is that the space between the buildings and other physical infrastructure is also a key part of a cities and this is mainly airspace, but many cities contain large bodies of water and or are coastal.

Thanks

]]> By: villemm https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3088 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:58:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3088 It seems critical to define what defines a city, is the megapolis from Boston to DC a city, what about SoCal? Is LA 1 city and San Diego another, if you look at traffic pattern to employment centers in SoCal like Irvine I do not think so. This would we mean we already have cities of close to 50 million!!!

]]> By: villemm https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/01/29/how-big-can-cities-grow-guest-article/#comment-3093 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:58:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1471#comment-3093 It seems critical to define what defines a city, is the megapolis from Boston to DC a city, what about SoCal? Is LA 1 city and San Diego another, if you look at traffic pattern to employment centers in SoCal like Irvine I do not think so. This would we mean we already have cities of close to 50 million!!!

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