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The Mathematics of Urban Morphology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Mathematics of Urban Morphology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology
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This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban
morphology, the study of urban forms and structures, offering a
much-needed mathematical perspective. Experts on a variety of
mathematical modeling techniques provide new insights into specific
aspects of the field, such as street networks, sustainability, and
urban growth. The chapters collected here make a clear case for the
importance of tools and methods to understand, model, and simulate
the formation and evolution of cities. The chapters cover a wide
variety of topics in urban morphology, and are conveniently
organized by their mathematical principles. The first part covers
fractals and focuses on how self-similar structures sort themselves
out through competition. This is followed by a section on cellular
automata, and includes chapters exploring how they generate fractal
forms. Networks are the focus of the third part, which includes
street networks and other forms as well. Chapters that examine
complexity and its relation to urban structures are in part
four.The fifth part introduces a variety of other quantitative
models that can be used to study urban morphology. In the book's
final section, a series of multidisciplinary commentaries offers
readers new ways of looking at the relationship between mathematics
and urban forms. Being the first book on this topic, Mathematics of
Urban Morphology will be an invaluable resource for applied
mathematicians and anyone studying urban morphology. Additionally,
anyone who is interested in cities from the angle of economics,
sociology, architecture, or geography will also find it useful.
"This book provides a useful perspective on the state of the art
with respect to urban morphology in general and mathematics as
tools and frames to disentangle the ideas that pervade arguments
about form and function in particular. There is much to absorb in
the pages that follow and there are many pointers to ways in which
these ideas can be linked to related theories of cities, urban
design and urban policy analysis as well as new movements such as
the role of computation in cities and the idea of the smart city.
Much food for thought. Read on, digest, enjoy." From the foreword
by Michael Batty
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