Cities and Complexity - Table of Contents

September 2005
8 x 9, 589 pp., 181 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-02583-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-02583-6

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Cities and Complexity
Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals
Michael Batty

	List of Figures	ix

	List of Tables	xvii

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (22 KB)	xix

	Acknowledgments	xxiii

	Introduction: Understanding Cities Sample Chapter - Download PDF (81 KB)	1

1	Urban Change: Complexity and Emergence	17

2	Cells and Cities: The Rudiments of Computation	67

3	Laboratories for Growing Cities	105

4	Desktop Simulators: Hypothetical Urban Evolution	151

5	Agents and Cells, Actions and Interactions	209

6	Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Street Systems and Buildings	263

7	The Dynamics of Small-Scale Spatial Events	319

8	Polynucleated Urban Landscapes	353

9	Modeling Urban Growth as a Spatial Epidemic	385

10	Self-Organized Criticality and Urban Development	425

11	The Fractal City	457

	Conclusion: Understanding Models	515

	References	521

	Author Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (28 KB)	545

	Subject Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (51 KB)	553

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