Introduction to Urban Science | Buch

Cover: 9780262046008 | Introduction to Urban Science | Luis M. A. Bettencourt | Buch | 2021

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Beschreibung

"A comprehensive, scientific guided tour of how cities work and generate change in human societies"--

Über den Autor

Luís M. A. Bettencourt is Professor of Ecology and Evolution, and Inaugural Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, at the University of Chicago. He is also an external Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1 Why Cities? What Is Urban Science?
2 Classical Models of Cities and Urban Functional Definitions
3 Complex Networks and Urban Scaling
4 The Statistics of Urban Quantities. Predictability, Identity and Universality
5 Diversity and the Productivity of Cities
6 Neighborhoods and Human Development
7 Cities the Origins of Settlements in History
8 Urban Systems, Demography and the Laws of Geography
9 Growth, Information and the Emergence of Institutions
10 What Are Cities for? The Challenges Ahead
Appendix A: Background Derivations for the Core-Periphery Model
Appendix B: Urban Economics Models
Appendix C: Overview of the Ergodic Theorems of Demography
Appendix D: General Probability Solution for Geometric Random Growth
Notes
References
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780262046008
ISBN-10:	0262046008
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Bettencourt, Luis M. A.
Hersteller:	MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	258 x 189 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Luis M. A. Bettencourt
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.08.2021
Gewicht:	1,195 kg