Inventing Future Cities

by Michael Batty

Book Overview

How we can invent-but not predict-the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262548658
• ISBN13: 9780262548656
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"