Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems (Hardcover)

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Preface
1 Why Cities? What Is Urban Science?
2 Classical Models of Cities and Urban Functional Definitions
3 Complex Networks and Urban Scaling
4 The Statistics of Urban Quantities. Predictability, Identity and Universality
5 Diversity and the Productivity of Cities
6 Neighborhoods and Human Development
7 Cities the Origins of Settlements in History
8 Urban Systems, Demography and the Laws of Geography
9 Growth, Information and the Emergence of Institutions
10 What Are Cities for? The Challenges Ahead
Appendix A: Background Derivations for the Core-Periphery Model
Appendix B: Urban Economics Models
Appendix C: Overview of the Ergodic Theorems of Demography
Appendix D: General Probability Solution for Geometric Random Growth
Notes
References
Index