Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required method

Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can em

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same

Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. This new c