Inventing future cities /

• Main Author: Batty, Michael (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2018
• Subjects: Πόλεις και κωμοπόλεις > Ανάπτυξη; Πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός > Τεχνολογικές καινοτομίες; Βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη; Τεχνολογικές καινοτομίες > Οικονομικές απόψεις > Ελλάδα

We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decision...

Table of 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
• Name index
• Subject index.