Self-organized criticality and urban development

Urban society is undergoing as profound a spatial transformation as that associated with the emergence of the industrial city two centuries ago. To describe and measure this transition, we introduce a new theory based on the concept that large-scale, complex systems composed of many interacting ele...

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Main Authors: Michael Batty, Yichun Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1999-01-01
Series:Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1026022699000151