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Viewing urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory; models and examples in scales from the local to the regional. Batty begins with models based on cellular automata (CA), simulating urban dynamics through the local actions of automata. He then introduces agent-based models (ABM), in which agents are mobile and move between locations. These models relate to many scales, from the scale of the street to patterns and structure at the scale of the urban region. Finally, Batty develops applications of all these models to specific urban situations, discussing concepts of criticality, threshold, surprise, novelty, and phase transition in the context of spatial developments.

City planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Computer simulation. --- Mathematical models. --- Government policy --- Management --- Simulation models. --- Ruimtelijke patronen --- Ruimtelijke modellen --- Computer simulation --- Mathematical models --- Simulation models --- Urbanisme --- Simulation par ordinateur --- Modèles mathématiques --- 514 --- 711.4 --- Fractale structuren --- Fractals --- Geometrie --- Meetkunde --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Stedenbouw --- City planning - Computer simulation --- City planning - Mathematical models --- City planning - Simulation models

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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 compose the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function.Batty presents the foundations of a new science of cities, defining flows and their networks and introducing tools that can be applied to understanding different aspects of city structure. He examines the size of cities, their internal order, the transport routes that define them, and the locations that fix these networks. He introduces methods of simulation that range from simple stochastic models to bottom-up evolutionary models to aggregate land-use transportation models. Then, using largely the same tools, he presents design and decision-making models that predict interactions and flows in future cities. These networks emphasize a notion with relevance for future research and planning: that design of cities is collective action.

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Cities and towns --- Social change --- Sustainable development --- Twenty-first century --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Villes --- Changement social --- Développement durable --- Vingt et unième siècle --- Ecologie urbaine --- Forecasting --- Forecasts --- Prévision --- Prévisions --- Urban economics. --- Sustainable development. --- Social change. --- Urban ecology. --- 911.3:30 --- 911.3:33 --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- City economics --- Economics of cities --- Economics --- Forecasting. --- Social geography --- Economic geography --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Bewoning en leefgemeenschap. --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Développement durable --- Vingt et unième siècle --- Prévision --- Prévisions --- Urban economics

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This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.

Human geography --- Computer networking & communications --- Information technology: general issues --- Geography --- Human Geography --- Information Systems and Communication Service --- Computer Applications --- Geography, general --- Urban Geography and Urbanism --- Database Management System --- Geographical Information System --- Urban informatics --- Urban science --- GIS --- Urban computing --- Sensing --- Big data --- Smart cities --- Spatial data infrastructure --- Big data analytics --- Data-driven geography --- Open access