Inventing future cities / Michael Batty.
By: Batty, Michael [author.].
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2018]Description: xviii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262038959 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Growth | City planning -- Technological innovations | Sustainable development | Technological innovations -- Economic aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.
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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Bibliography -- Index.