Cities and Complexity

Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata,
Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

By Michael Batty

Published by the MIT Press in October 2005
 

Available from MIT Press, from Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk

A web site associated with this book will be developed here where readers will be able to download
sample chapters and examine the various ideas and examples which make up the book.

The contents of the book will be:

Preface Acknowledgements
Introduction: Understanding Cities

1	Urban Change: Complexity and Emergence
2	Cells and Cities: The Rudiments of Computation
3	Laboratories for Growing Cities
4	Desktop Simulators: Hypothetical Urban Evolution
5	Agents and Cells, Actions and Interactions
6	Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Street Systems and Buildings
7	The Dynamics of Small Scale Spatial Events
8	Polynucleated Urban Landscapes
9	Modelling Urban Growth as a Spatial Epidemic
10	Self-Organized Criticality and Urban Development
11	The Fractal City

Conclusions: Understanding Models
References Author Index Subject Index

This site will become active in mid-October 2005.
Further information from Mike Batty • CASA • UCL • London
email m.batty@ucl.ac.uk