- Hardcover: 584 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (7 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262025833
- ISBN-13: 978-0262025836
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 20.6 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,604,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Michael Batty provides a powerful new way of thinking about cities in terms of cells and agents, demonstrating how highly organized spatial patterns can emerge from surprisingly simple rules and processes. His many beautiful, meticulously developed examples provide fascinating insights into the evolution of urban forms, and will serve as wonderful starting points for further research." - William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, MIT"
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This work views 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 centralized, top-down approach to a decentralized, 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.Every theory and model presented in the book is developed through examples that range from the simplified and hypothetical to the actual. Deploying extensive visual, mathematical, and textual material, Cities and Complexity will be read both by urban researchers and by complexity theorists with an interest in new kinds of computational models.
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4.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
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Tremendous resource, 23 Jun 2006
By Paul A. Peters - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (Hardcover)
This book is an immense collection of research on the application of complex systems to urban spatial analysis. While this book is not extensive and is probably not meant as a textbook on complex systems in its entirety, I highly recommend it for those interested in urban spatial analysis. The applications of the techniques go beyond geography and are useful in sociology, economics, or urban planning. A caveat that I should add is that the book is quite dense with methods and formulas and is probably not best to approach this book without some knowledge of advanced statistics. However, the theoretical overviews provided more than allow for those without this background to get something out of it. In short, if you are a graduate student, professor, or researcher I'd recommend this book for an insightful and important take on the nature of cities and urban analysis.
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Exhaustive and Complex, 4 Mar 2008
By Andrew Jenks "ajenks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cities and Complexity Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, AgentBased Models, and Fractals: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (Paperback)
Prior to buying this book there were no reviews which mentioned that this was more a textbook than an in-depth but casual read.
This book is an exhaustive look at urban planning and an understanding of cities and the patterns of growth and population. While this is exactly what I was looking for, it is extremely dense and full of charts and graphs of advanced mathematical equations. I have no problem with this, however this is much more a textbook than a casual read with some interesting equations to backup the argument proposed.
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Cities unwrapped, 26 Sep 2008
By orkcloud - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cities and Complexity Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, AgentBased Models, and Fractals: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (Paperback)
Great as starting point for urban develop.
This book is like "Every thing you want to know about cities growth and you, probably wouldn't think of...."
Professor Batty should be consider to urban modeling as Mandelbrot is to fractals.
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