Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems Bettencourt Luis M. a.
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems Bettencourt Luis M. a. A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues…
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Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems Bettencourt Luis M. a.
A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns.Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. He explores the processes facilitated by and, in many cases, unleashed for the first time by urban life through the lenses of social heterogeneity, complex networks, scaling, circular causality, and information.Though the idea that cities are complex adaptive systems has become mainstream, until now those who study cities have In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such traditional disciplines as sociology, geography, and economics.