"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"
作者简介
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。