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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
The contents of the book are as follows:
Preface 
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Understanding Cities
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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
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A web site which deals with cities and complexity science
which will feature some material from this book, as well as
the wider development of complexity science in urban and regional
studies and planning will be developed here and will go live
in late 2006. The site will have some sample programs as well
as a review of the history of complexity in this field and
will contain links to key developments world wide.
Further information from Mike Batty • CASA • UCL
• London
email m.batty@ucl.ac.uk
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