| #466471 in Books | imusti | 2013-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.88 x7.00l,2.16 | File Name: 0262019523 | 520 pages | MIT Press MA
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Feels like a nice tea time discussion|By expateconomiste|The book has a promising title and I was excited to get my hardback copy. I have been studying and publishing urban economics papers for quite a bit now. Unfortunately, the book disappoints on many levels. To sum up the issues, one could say that it feels like an educated conversation at tea time. The ideas are far reach|||A brilliant synthesis of how concepts from complexity science change our understanding of cities. Scaling, fractals, and simulation models are clearly explained and used to demonstrate how flows and networks shape cities and how they can be better predicted
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 comprise t...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The New Science of Cities (MIT Press) | Michael Batty.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
