UID:
edocfu_9960950851502883
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
0-262-36644-4
,
0-262-36643-6
Series Statement:
The MIT Press
Content:
"A comprehensive, scientific guided tour of how cities work and generate change in human societies"--
Note:
Why cities? What is urban science? -- Classical models of cities and urban functional definitions -- Complex networks and urban scaling theory -- The statistics of urban quantities. Predictability, identity and universality -- Diversity and the productivity of cities -- Neighborhoods and human development -- Cities in history and the origins of settlements -- Urban systems, demography and the laws of geography -- Growth, information and the emergence of institutions -- What are cities for? The challenges ahead.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bettencourt, Luís M. A., author. Introduction to urban science : evidence and theory of cities as complex systems Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]. ISBN 9780262046008
Language:
English
