Colleagues may be interested in the following book that has
just been published
Michael Batty and Paul Longley (1994) Fractal Cities, Academic
Press, London and San Diego, CA
From the publishers description:
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 simulated through computer graphics. It shows how
cities evolve and grow in ways that at first sight appear
irregular, but which, when understood in terms of fractals,
illustrate an underlying order that reveals their complexity and
diversity.
The book contains sixteen pages of stunning computer graphics
and explanations of how to construct them, as well as new
insights into the complexity of social systems. The authors
provide an intelligible and gentle introduction to fractal
geometry as well as an exciting visual understanding of the
form of cities, thus providing one of the best introductions to
fractal geometry available for non-mathematicians and social
scientists.
Fractal Cities can be used as a text for courses on geographic
information systems, urban geography, regional science and
fractal geometry. Planners and architects will also find that
there are many aspects of fractal geometry in this book
relevant to their own interests. Furthermore, those involved in
fractals and chaos, computer graphics and systems theory will
find important methods and examples which are germane to
their work.
Michael Batty is Director of the National Center for
Geographic Information and Analysis in the State University
of New York at Buffalo and Paul Longley is Reader in
Geography at the University of Bristol
price $49.95 and #35-00 (ISBN 0-12-455570-5) hardcover
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just been published
Michael Batty and Paul Longley (1994) Fractal Cities, Academic
Press, London and San Diego, CA
From the publishers description:
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 simulated through computer graphics. It shows how
cities evolve and grow in ways that at first sight appear
irregular, but which, when understood in terms of fractals,
illustrate an underlying order that reveals their complexity and
diversity.
The book contains sixteen pages of stunning computer graphics
and explanations of how to construct them, as well as new
insights into the complexity of social systems. The authors
provide an intelligible and gentle introduction to fractal
geometry as well as an exciting visual understanding of the
form of cities, thus providing one of the best introductions to
fractal geometry available for non-mathematicians and social
scientists.
Fractal Cities can be used as a text for courses on geographic
information systems, urban geography, regional science and
fractal geometry. Planners and architects will also find that
there are many aspects of fractal geometry in this book
relevant to their own interests. Furthermore, those involved in
fractals and chaos, computer graphics and systems theory will
find important methods and examples which are germane to
their work.
Michael Batty is Director of the National Center for
Geographic Information and Analysis in the State University
of New York at Buffalo and Paul Longley is Reader in
Geography at the University of Bristol
price $49.95 and #35-00 (ISBN 0-12-455570-5) hardcover
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:13:21 -0500
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