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Cities and Complexity - Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (Paperback) Loot Price: R2,239
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Cities and Complexity - Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (Paperback): Michael Batty

Cities and Complexity - Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (Paperback)

Michael Batty

Series: Cities and Complexity

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Mario Carpo provides a subtle and insightful discussion of the intellectual structures that guide architectural composition and the ways that these structures were transformed by the historic shifts from script to print and from hand-made drawings to mechanically reproduced images. He goes on to suggest that the current shift from print to digital representations will have similarly profound consequences. This is a crucial text for anyone interested in the interrelationships of media and design processes. 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. Batty begins with models based on cellular automata (CA), simulating urban dynamics through the local actions of automata. He then introduces agent-based models (ABM), in which agents are mobile and move between locations. These models relate to many scales, from the scale of the street to patterns and structure at the scale of the urban region. Finally, Batty develops applications of all these models to specific urban situations, discussing concepts of criticality, threshold, surprise, novelty, and phase transition in the context of spatial developments. 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. Sample chapters and examples from the book, and other related material, can be found at http://www.complexcity.info

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Imprint: MIT Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cities and Complexity
Release date: August 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: Michael Batty (Bartlett Professor of Planning and Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA))
Dimensions: 229 x 203 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52479-7
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
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LSN: 0-262-52479-1
Barcode: 9780262524797

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