迈克尔·巴蒂(Michael Batty),伦敦大学学院高级空间分析中心Bartlett讲座教授。著有《The New Science of Cities》一书。
精彩摘录
"It is high time we changed our focus from locations to interactions, from thingking of cities simply as idealized morphologies to thinking of them as patterns of communication, interaction, trade ad exchange; in short, to thinking of them as networks."
"Cities admit innovation - indeed they are the crucibles of innovation; they generate surprise; they display catastrophes."
"We assumed that cities somehow emerged from hunter-gartherer societies as an implicit result of human beings' need to belong to a group for reproduction and defense, but also to satisfy needs for social interaction and organizing labor to increase material well-being, consistent with the economics o"