TY  - BOOK
AU  - Batty,Michael
TI  - Cities and complexity: understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals 
SN  - 0262025833
AV  - HT166 .B3866 2005
U1  - 307.1216 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - City planning
KW  - Computer simulation
KW  - Mathematical models
N1  - 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
ER  -