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The New Science of Cities

Batty, Michael·2013·The MIT Press eBooks

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A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks. In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks—the relations between objects that compose the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function. Batty presents the foundations of a new science of cities, defining flows and their networks and introducing tools that can be applied to understanding different aspects of city structure. He examines the size of cities, their internal order, the transport routes that define them, and the locations that fix these networks. He introduces methods of simulation that range from simple stochastic models to bottom-up evolutionary models to aggregate land-use transportation models. Then, using largely the same tools, he presents design and decision-making models that predict interactions and flows in future cities. These networks emphasize a notion with relevance for future research and planning: that design of cities is collective action.

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Authors: Batty, M.
Corresponding author: Batty, Michael
ORCID: Batty, Michael
Venue: The MIT Press eBooks
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2013-11-01
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9399.001.0001
OpenAlex: W202805313
Cited by: 1,700
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Citations by year: 2026: 225 · 2025: 161 · 2024: 107 · 2023: 106 · 2022: 106 · 2021: 156 · 2020: 170 · 2019: 146 · 2018: 176 · 2017: 121 · 2016: 96 · 2015: 84 · 2014: 45
FWCI: 79.85
Type: book
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: The MIT Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Agglomeration and Urban Systems
Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Global Urban Networks and Dynamics
Keywords: urban systems, urban networks, flow, complexity science, social physics, urban design, city size, transportation routes, urban structure, stochastic modeling, evolutionary models, urban planning, collective action, urban decision-making

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Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

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The New Science of Cities

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