Luis M. A. Bettencourt

Introduction to Urban Science

Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A comprehensive, scientific guided tour of how cities work and generate change in human societies"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 189mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1200g
• ISBN-13: 9780262046008
• ISBN-10: 0262046008
• Artikelnr.: 60560703

Autorenporträt

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1 Why Cities? What Is Urban Science?
2 Classical Models of Cities and Urban Functional Definitions
3 Complex Networks and Urban Scaling
4 The Statistics of Urban Quantities. Predictability, Identity and
Universality
5 Diversity and the Productivity of Cities
6 Neighborhoods and Human Development
7 Cities the Origins of Settlements in History
8 Urban Systems, Demography and the Laws of Geography
9 Growth, Information and the Emergence of Institutions
10 What Are Cities for? The Challenges Ahead
Appendix A: Background Derivations for the Core-Periphery Model
Appendix B: Urban Economics Models
Appendix C: Overview of the Ergodic Theorems of Demography
Appendix D: General Probability Solution for Geometric Random Growth
Notes
References
Index