Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems: Models of Complexity
- Title
- Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems: Models of Complexity
- Creator(s)
- Allen, Peter M.
- Date
- 1997
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Gordon and Breach
- Place Published
- Amsterdam
- Short Title
- Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems
- Abstract
- A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together with a detailed series of modelling case studies compiled over the last couple of decades. Based on the new complex systems thinking, mathematical models are developed which attempt to simulate the evolution of towns, cities, and regions and the complicated co-evolutionary interaction there is both between and within them. The aim of these models is to help pol
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