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Summary
Summary
Viewing urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory; models and examples in scales from the local to the regional As urban planning moves from a centralised, top-down approach to a decentralised, bottom-up perspective, our conception of urban systems is changing. In Cities and Complexity, Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and elements that combine into organic wholes. He argues that bottom-up processes - in which the outcomes are always uncertain - can combine with new forms of geometry associated with fractal patterns and chaotic dynamics to provide theories that are applicable to highly complex systems such as cities. Batty begins with models based on cellular automata (CA), simulating urban dynamics through the local actions of automata.
Table of Contents
List of Figures | p. ix |
List of Tables | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Introduction: Understanding Cities | p. 1 |
1 Urban Change: Complexity and Emergence | p. 17 |
2 Cells and Cities: The Rudiments of Computation | p. 67 |
3 Laboratories for Growing Cities | p. 105 |
4 Desktop Simulators: Hypothetical Urban Evolution | p. 151 |
5 Agents and Cells, Actions and Interactions | p. 209 |
6 Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Street Systems and Buildings | p. 263 |
7 The Dynamics of Small-Scale Spatial Events | p. 319 |
8 Polynucleated Urban Landscapes | p. 353 |
9 Modeling Urban Growth as a Spatial Epidemic | p. 385 |
10 Self-Organized Criticality and Urban Development | p. 425 |
11 The Fractal City | p. 457 |
Conclusion: Understanding Models | p. 515 |
References | p. 521 |
Author Index | p. 545 |
Subject Index | p. 553 |