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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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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—

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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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BT3TL57
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Nov. 1 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Jackie Peskett
    5.0 out of 5 stars The New Science of Cities - Evolution of....
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2018
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    This book has enormous potential. I don't find it laudable, actually the opposite. This book doesn't give any answers (which I suspect many others readers were hoping for!), but a variable amount of methodologies and/or processes. Like any scientific theories/enquiries it must be tested, in particular chapters' 6 and 8. I would suggest building mathematical/physical/virtual models (if not done already, but it is not evident within the body of the book) that can be seen visually, in the contexts of urban design (infrastructure issues), urban planning (continuum space) and architectural design (cybernetics). For me, the key for the next evolution for this book, is for Michael Batty, to turn this book into research clusters with testable results. (Lee Knight).
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    Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2015
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    I have not been able to read the book MODERN SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS IN PRACTICE that I bought. The book has serious problems of format and graphics and equations cannot visualize themselves and they get cut.
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    Good quality, fast delivery. I think it is a book that I need in short time, so satisfied about the delivery time.
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    Not a good book.
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  • antonio guadagnini
    4.0 out of 5 stars Bel libro
    Reviewed in Italy on December 1, 2017
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    Libro interessante che cerca di delineare una ‘scienza’ delle città usando la teoria della complessità e tutte le idee da quest’ultima usate. Credo che i concetti principali possano essere capiti anche senza approfondire il formalismo matematico. Quindi è un libro che possono leggere tutti quelli interessati a questi argomenti
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