Michael Batty Books
Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function
By Michael Batty, Paul Longley
Fractal Cities is a pioneering study of the development and use of fractal geometry for understanding and planning the physical form of cities, showing how this geometry enables cities to be simula...
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Inventing Future Cities
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...
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Cities and Complexity
Mario Carpo provides a subtle and insightful discussion of the intellectual structures that guide architectural composition and the ways that these structures were transformed by the historic shift...
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The New Science of Cities
A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand...
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