Inventing future cities / Michael Batty.
Inventing future cities / Michael Batty.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
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G 2019/0184
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English
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xviii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Predictability, complexity and inventing the future -- The great transition -- Defining cities -- Form follows function, or does it? -- The pulse of the city -- Outwards, inwards and upwards: suburbs to skyscrapers -- The sixth kondratieff: the age of the smart city -- The inventive century -- Notes...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
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Massachusetts
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[2018]
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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...
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Inventing future cities / Michael Batty.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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G 2019/0184
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74VKV0z6jxod
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0z6jxod
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0262038951 hardcover alkaline paper
9780262038959 hardcover alkaline paper
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307.76
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991024225019602626
