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100			_aBatty, Michael _99580
245			_aInventing future cities
260			_bMIT Press _aCambridge _c2018
300			_axviii, 282 p.
365			_aUSD _b27.95
504			_aTABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface 1. Predictability, complexity, and inventing the future 2. The great transition 3. Defining cities 4. Form follows function or does it? 5. The pulse of the city 6. Outward, inward, and upward: suburbs to skyscrapers 7. The sixth Kondratieff: the age of the smart city 8. The inventive century.
520			_aHow 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 organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.
650			_aSustainable development _91438
650			_aTechnological innovations - Economic aspects _9417
650			_aCities and towns - Growth _910958
650			_aCity planning - Technological innovations _910959
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