Michael Batty

Inventing Future Cities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780262548656
• ISBN-10: 0262548658
• Artikelnr.: 69738655

Autorenporträt

Michael Batty

Inhaltsangabe

TOC: 
Preface ix
Image Credits xiii
1 Predictability, Complexity, and Inventing the Future 1
2 The Great Transition 19
3 Defining Cities 41
4 Form Follows Function--Or Does It? 69
5 The Pulse of the City 101
6 Outward, Inward, and Upward: Suburbs to Skyscrapers 131
7 The Sixth Kondratieff: The Age of the Smart City 165
8 The Inventive Century 193
Notes 221
Bibliography 253
Name Index 269
Subject Index 273

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TOC:
Preface ix
Image Credits xiii
1 Predictability, Complexity, and Inventing the Future 1
2 The Great Transition 19
3 Defining Cities 41
4 Form Follows Function--Or Does It? 69
5 The Pulse of the City 101
6 Outward, Inward, and Upward: Suburbs to Skyscrapers 131
7 The Sixth Kondratieff: The Age of the Smart City 165
8 The Inventive Century 193
Notes 221
Bibliography 253
Name Index 269
Subject Index 273

Rezensionen

Mike Batty's new book is a tour de force meta-narrative of both the trends and components of urbanism at the start of the 21st century and one that should be read by all those with an interest in cities. Situating the debate within a past, present, and future context, he offers some perceptive and provocative contributions on where cities might be heading. This is not some academic pseudo-navel gazing exercise, but rather a considered debate that revolves around planning, design, technology, the impact of new infrastructure and new patterns of living and working, and above all the digital dynamics that are affecting every aspect of our present and future. Urban Analytics and City Science