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Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals / Michael Batty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xxi, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262025833
  • 9780262025836
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1216 22
LOC classification:
  • HT166 .B3866 2005
Contents:
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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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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