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

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This book is an immense collection of research on the application of complex systems to urban spatial analysis. While this book is not extensive and is probably not meant as a textbook on complex systems in its entirety, I highly recommend it for those interested in urban spatial analysis. The applications of the techniques go beyond geography and are useful in sociology, economics, or urban planning. A caveat that I should add is that the book is quite dense with methods and formulas and is probably not best to approach this book without some knowledge of advanced statistics. However, the theoretical overviews provided more than allow for those without this background to get something out of it. In short, if you are a graduate student, professor, or researcher I'd recommend this book for an insightful and important take on the nature of cities and urban analysis.

Prior to buying this book there were no reviews which mentioned that this was more a textbook than an in-depth but casual read.

This book is an exhaustive look at urban planning and an understanding of cities and the patterns of growth and population. While this is exactly what I was looking for, it is extremely dense and full of charts and graphs of advanced mathematical equations. I have no problem with this, however this is much more a textbook than a casual read with some interesting equations to backup the argument proposed.

Great as starting point for urban develop.
This book is like "Every thing you want to know about cities growth and you, probably wouldn't think of...."

Professor Batty should be consider to urban modeling as Mandelbrot is to fractals.