CASA Books
Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models and Fractals
04 October 2011
As urban planning moves from a centralized, top-down approach to a decentralized, bottom-up perspective, our conception of urban systems is changing. In Cities and Complexity, Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a ...
Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary education for a complex world
Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power - for individuals, organizations, cities, regions and countries. This book offers a map showing the structure of the knowledge space in a contemporary context. The routes ...
Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems
This unique book brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based modelling (ABM) within geo-graphical systems.
Virtual Geographic Environments
Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and "virtual geographies."
Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment
The table of contents: Introduction / Temporal Urban - Cycle Study as Basis of Adaptive Urbanism / urbanMachine / Memory: Collective vs. Individual Narratives / timeSpace / Body, Space and Maps / bodySpace / Urban Narratives of Time Images or the ...