The Computable City
Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions
$89.51
- Paperback
536 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2024
Summary
How computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve.
At every stage in the history of computers and communications, it is safe to say we have been unable to predict what happens next. When computers first appeared nearly seventy-five years ago, primitive computer models were used to help understand and plan cities, but as computers became faster, smaller, more powerful, and ever more ubiquitous, cities …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547574 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547570 |
| Author: | Michael Batty |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 536 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“As artificial intelligence is thrusted upon us, this book provides urbanists, planners, and futurists with a timely reflection on the convergence between computers, information, and cities… . This book is the first comprehensive guide to the social, technological, and physical aspects of computable cities, providing insights into urban futures.”
—Journal of the American Planning Association
“Michael Batty’s The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions offers a remarkable journey through the last half-century of communication, computation, and urban models from the perspective of one who has had a front-row seat throughout.”
—The AAG Review of Books
About The Author
Michael Batty
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and a Turing Fellow in the Alan Turing Institute. He is the author of Inventing Future Cities, The New Science of Cities, and Cities and Complexity (all MIT Press). He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and the Royal Society (FRS) and was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2004. He was made a Fellow of the Geographical Society of China in 2022.
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