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BL
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1042241
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b796611
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Batty, Michael.
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Fractal cities : : a geometry of form and function /\ Michael Batty and Paul Longley.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;San Diego :: Academic Press,, ©1994.
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xxi, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations (some color), maps ;; 26 cm
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0124555705
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: 9780124555709
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-384)-and indexes.
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| Contents
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1. The Shape of Cities: Geometry, Morphology, Complexity and Form -- 2. Size and Shape, Scale and Dimension -- 3. Simulating Cities as Fractal Picturescapes -- 4. Laboratories for Visualizing Urban Form -- 5. Urban Boundaries and Edges -- 6. The Morphology of Urban Land Use -- 7. Urban Growth and Form -- 8. Generating and Growing the Fractal City -- 9. Form Follows Function: Reformulating Population Density Functions -- 10. Extending the Geometry to Systems of Fractal Cities.
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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.
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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 that are germane to their work.
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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 a gentle and intelligible 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.
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Cities and towns-- Mathematical models.
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City planning-- Mathematical models.
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Fractals.
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Land use, Urban-- Mathematical models.
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Urban geography-- Mathematical models.
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Urbanisme-- Modèles mathématiques.
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Urbanisme-- Simulation, Méthodes de.
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Cities and towns-- Mathematical models.
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City planning-- Mathematical models.
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Fractals.
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Fractals.
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Fraktal
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Land use, Urban-- Mathematical models.
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Land use, Urban.
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Stadtgeografie
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Urban geography-- Mathematical models.
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Urban geography.
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Stadsgeografie.
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Stadsplanning.
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Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
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| Dewey Classification
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516
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711.4
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| LC Classification
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HT166.B383 1994
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74.06bcl
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74.72bcl
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GEO 067fstub
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MAT 519fstub
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PB 92blsrissc
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RB 10103rvk
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| Added Entry
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Longley, Paul.
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