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Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262349895
Book: Inventing Future Cities
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262349895
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11923.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262349895
How 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.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 November 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9399.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262318235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 November 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9399.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262318235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 November 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9399.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262318235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 November 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9399.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262318235
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 November 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9399.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262318235