What Is Social Physics?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by
Several previous posts suggest that our Science of Cities is more like Biology than Physics but Social Physics has a long history. CASA’s Martin Austwick recently gave an impromptu review from Quetelet’s original definition to Comte’s rebuttal. Useful definitions from Stewart in the 1940s to Iberall in the 1980s.

About Michael Batty

Set up and runs the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London and is Bartlett Professor of Planning
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