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The New Science of Cities (Paperback)
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The New Science of Cities (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not
as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks. In The
New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand
cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as
systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we
must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand
networks-the relations between objects that compose the system of
the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban
economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban
geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces
theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities
function. Batty presents the foundations of a new science of
cities, defining flows and their networks and introducing tools
that can be applied to understanding different aspects of city
structure. He examines the size of cities, their internal order,
the transport routes that define them, and the locations that fix
these networks. He introduces methods of simulation that range from
simple stochastic models to bottom-up evolutionary models to
aggregate land-use transportation models. Then, using largely the
same tools, he presents design and decision-making models that
predict interactions and flows in future cities. These networks
emphasize a notion with relevance for future research and planning:
that design of cities is collective action.
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