Main entry:

Batty, Michael.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

Description:

xxi, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-544) and indexes.
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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262025833 (alk. paper)
9780262025836 (alk. paper)
9780262524797 (pbk.)
0262524791 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Computer simulation.
City planning Mathematical models.
City planning Simulation models.
City planning Simulation methods.
Urbanisme Simulation par ordinateur.
Urbanisme Modèles mathématiques.
Urbanisme Méthodes de simulation.
Urban geography.
Urban geography Mathematical models.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243483
Call No.: BIB 173232
Status: Available