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