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September 2005
8 x 9, 589 pp., 181 illus.
(CLOTH)
Short

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 Figuresix
List of Tablesxvii
Preface
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xix
Acknowledgmentsxxiii
Introduction: Understanding Cities
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1Urban Change: Complexity and Emergence17
2Cells and Cities: The Rudiments of Computation67
3Laboratories for Growing Cities105
4Desktop Simulators: Hypothetical Urban Evolution151
5Agents and Cells, Actions and Interactions209
6Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Street Systems and Buildings263
7The Dynamics of Small-Scale Spatial Events319
8Polynucleated Urban Landscapes353
9Modeling Urban Growth as a Spatial Epidemic385
10Self-Organized Criticality and Urban Development425
11The Fractal City457
Conclusion: Understanding Models515
References521
Author Index
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Subject Index
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