Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

by Luis M a Bettencourt and Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262046008
• ISBN13: 9780262046008
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.1" x 10.1"