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Cities and Complexity
Michael Batty
其他書名
Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-based Models, and Fractals
出版MIT Press, 2005
主題Architecture / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN02620258339780262025836
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zF3aAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Viewing urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory; models and examples in scales from the local to the regional As urban planning moves from a centralised, top-down approach to a decentralised, 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.