UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

Published by the MIT Press in October 2005

Available from MIT Press, from Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk

The contents of the book are as follows:

Preface Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding Cities

1	Urban Change: Complexity and Emergence
2	Cells and Cities: The Rudiments of Computation
3	Laboratories for Growing Cities
4	Desktop Simulators: Hypothetical Urban Evolution
5	Agents and Cells, Actions and Interactions
6	Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Street Systems and Buildings
7	The Dynamics of Small Scale Spatial Events
8	Polynucleated Urban Landscapes
9	Modelling Urban Growth as a Spatial Epidemic
10	Self-Organized Criticality and Urban Development
11	The Fractal City

Conclusions: Understanding Models
References Author Index Subject Index

A web site which deals with cities and complexity science which will feature some material from this book, as well as the wider development of complexity science in urban and regional studies and planning will be developed here and will go live in late 2006. The site will have some sample programs as well as a review of the history of complexity in this field and will contain links to key developments world wide.

Further information from Mike Batty • CASA • UCL • London
email m.batty@ucl.ac.uk