The New Science of Cities
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- Paperback
520 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2017
Summary
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 comp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534567 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534568 |
| Author: | Michael Batty |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 520 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 22mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
Overall, The New Science of Cities is an ambitious and laudable undertaking, one that Batty admits cannot be comprehensive, but which, even so, may well be seen as a milestone.
Overall, The New Science of Cities is an ambitious and laudable undertaking, one that Batty admits cannot be comprehensive, but which, even so, may well be seen as a milestone.
-New Scientist
About The Author
Michael Batty
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London and the author of Cities and Complexity and The New Science of Cities, both published by the MIT Press.
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