Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals /
Batty, Michael,
Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals / Michael Batty. - xxi, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-544) and index.
Introduction : Understanding cities -- 1. Urban change: complexity and emergence -- 2. Cells and cities: the rudiments of computation -- 3. Laboratories for growing cities -- 4. Desktop simulators: hypothetical urban evolution -- 5. Agents and cells, actions and interactions -- 6. Local movement: agent-based models of street systems and buildings -- 7. The dynamics of small-scale spatial events -- 8. Polynucleated urban landscapes -- 9. Modeling urban growth as a spatial epidemic -- 10. Self-organized criticality and urban development -- 11. The fractal city -- Conclusion: Understanding Models.
0262025833 9780262025836
2004058199
City planning--Computer simulation
City planning--Mathematical models
HT166 / .B3866 2005
307.1216
Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals / Michael Batty. - xxi, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-544) and index.
Introduction : Understanding cities -- 1. Urban change: complexity and emergence -- 2. Cells and cities: the rudiments of computation -- 3. Laboratories for growing cities -- 4. Desktop simulators: hypothetical urban evolution -- 5. Agents and cells, actions and interactions -- 6. Local movement: agent-based models of street systems and buildings -- 7. The dynamics of small-scale spatial events -- 8. Polynucleated urban landscapes -- 9. Modeling urban growth as a spatial epidemic -- 10. Self-organized criticality and urban development -- 11. The fractal city -- Conclusion: Understanding Models.
0262025833 9780262025836
2004058199
City planning--Computer simulation
City planning--Mathematical models
HT166 / .B3866 2005
307.1216