Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals / Michael Batty.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xxi, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262025833
- 9780262025836
- 307.1216 22
- HT166 .B3866 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 307.1216 BAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A423767B |
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.
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