Introduction to Urban Science
Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
ISBN: 9780262366441 | Copyright 2021
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| CONTENTS (pg. vii) | |
| LIST OF FIGURES (pg. ix) | |
| LIST OF TABLES (pg. xvii) | |
| PREFACE (pg. xix) | |
| 1. WHY CITIES? WHAT IS URBAN SCIENCE? (pg. 1) | |
| 1.1 WHY URBAN SCIENCE? (pg. 6) | |
| 1.2 CHALLENGES OF URBAN POLICY (pg. 7) | |
| 1.3 A BRIEF HISTORY OF IDEAS ABOUT CITIES AS COMPLEX SYSTEMS (pg. 8) | |
| OBJECTIVES AND THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK (pg. 13) | |
| 2. CLASSICAL MODELS OF CITIES AND URBAN FUNCTIONAL DEFINITIONS (pg. 17) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 18) | |
| 2.1 MODELS OF SPATIAL AGGLOMERATION (pg. 18) | |
| 2.2 CLASSICAL MODELS OF THE CITY’S INTERNAL STRUCTURE (pg. 29) | |
| 2.3 TIME, DISTANCE, AND THE DEFINITION OF FUNCTIONAL CITIES (pg. 46) | |
| EPILOGUE: FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS, DESCRIPTION, AND QUANTIFICATION (pg. 54) | |
| 3. COMPLEX NETWORKS AND URBAN SCALING (pg. 55) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 56) | |
| 3.1 URBAN SCALING: GENERAL EMPIRICAL PROPERTIES OF CITIES (pg. 56) | |
| 3.2 CITIES AS SELF-CONSISTENT SPATIAL AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (pg. 65) | |
| 3.3 OTHER OBSERVABLE PREDICTIONS FROM URBAN SCALING THEORY (pg. 92) | |
| EPILOGUE: CITIES ARE A DIFFERENT KIND OF COMPLEX SYSTEM (pg. 121) | |
| 4. THE STATISTICS OF URBAN QUANTITIES: PREDICTABILITY, IDENTITY, AND UNIVERSALITY (pg. 123) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 123) | |
| 4.1 GROWTH PROCESSES AND EMERGENT STATISTICS OF URBAN INDICATORS (pg. 124) | |
| 4.2 STOCHASTIC GROWTH: VOLATILITY CONTROL AND EMERGING UNIVERSAL STATISTICS OF CITIES (pg. 143) | |
| EPILOGUE: PREDICTABILITY, IDENTITY, AND UNIVERSALITY OF URBAN INDICATORS (pg. 163) | |
| 5. DIVERSITY AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF CITIES (pg. 165) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 166) | |
| 5.1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS FOR THE ORIGINS OF DIVERSITY (pg. 166) | |
| 5.2 THE DIVERSITY OF BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS IN US CITIES (pg. 176) | |
| 5.3 MORE GENERAL CONNECTIVITY: THE CITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL NETWORKS (pg. 192) | |
| EPILOGUE: THE VALUE OF DIVERSITY (pg. 206) | |
| 6. NEIGHBORHOODS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (pg. 207) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 208) | |
| 6.1 HUMAN ECOLOGY AND NEIGHBORHOODS (pg. 208) | |
| 6.2 PLACE-BASED INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPING CITIES (pg. 218) | |
| 6.3 MEASURING NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE: SPATIAL SELECTION AND INFORMATION (pg. 237) | |
| EPILOGUE: NEIGHBORHOODS, INFORMATION, AND HUMAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (pg. 249) | |
| 7. CITIES AND THE ORIGINS OF SETTLEMENTS IN HISTORY (pg. 251) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 253) | |
| 7.1 CITIES IN HISTORY (pg. 253) | |
| 7.2 HUNTER-GATHERER SOCIETIES AND THE ORIGINS OF SETTLEMENTS (pg. 270) | |
| 7.3 THE PUZZLE OF LOW ECONOMIC GROWTH IN HISTORICAL URBAN SYSTEMS (pg. 282) | |
| EPILOGUE: LESSONS FROM HISTORY (pg. 285) | |
| 8. URBAN SYSTEMS, DEMOGRAPHY, AND THE LAWS OF GEOGRAPHY (pg. 287) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 288) | |
| 8.1 THE LAWS OF GEOGRAPHY (pg. 289) | |
| 8.2 DEMOGRAPHIC DYNAMICS AND THE EMERGENCE OF URBAN SYSTEMS (pg. 306) | |
| 8.3 URBANIZATION AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION (pg. 332) | |
| EPILOGUE: CHOICE, DEMOGRAPHY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF URBAN SYSTEMS (pg. 335) | |
| 9. GROWTH, INFORMATION, AND THE EMERGENCE OF INSTITUTIONS (pg. 337) | |
| CHAPTER OUTLINE (pg. 337) | |
| 9.1 MODELS OF ENDOGENOUS ECONOMIC GROWTH (pg. 338) | |
| 9.2 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND URBANIZATION: THE NATIONAL EVIDENCE REVISITED (pg. 345) | |
| 9.3 STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF GROWTH AND INFORMATION (pg. 360) | |
| EPILOGUE: OUR CONSTRUCTED NICHE (pg. 369) | |
| 10. WHAT ARE CITIES FOR? THE CHALLENGES AHEAD (pg. 371) | |
| 10.1 WHAT ARE CITIES FOR? (pg. 371) | |
| 10.2 CHALLENGES AHEAD (pg. 374) | |
| APPENDIX A: BACKGROUND DERIVATIONS FOR THE CORE-PERIPHERY MODEL (pg. 383) | |
| APPENDIX B: URBAN ECONOMICS MODELS (pg. 387) | |
| APPENDIX C: INFORMATION THEORY AND LEARNING (pg. 391) | |
| APPENDIX D: OVERVIEW OF THE ERGODIC THEOREMS OF DEMOGRAPHY (pg. 393) | |
| APPENDIX E: GENERAL PROBABILITY SOLUTION FOR GEOMETRIC RANDOM GROWTH (pg. 395) | |
| NOTES (pg. 399) | |
| 1. WHY CITIES? WHAT IS URBAN SCIENCE? (pg. 399) | |
| 2. CLASSICAL MODELS OF CITIES AND URBAN FUNCTIONAL DEFINITIONS (pg. 400) | |
| 3. COMPLEX NETWORKS AND URBAN SCALING (pg. 402) | |
| 4. THE STATISTICS OF URBAN QUANTITIES (pg. 405) | |
| 5. DIVERSITY AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF CITIES (pg. 407) | |
| 6. NEIGHBORHOODS AND HUMANDEVELOPMENT (pg. 408) | |
| 7. CITIES AND THE ORIGINS OF SETTLEMENTS IN HISTORY (pg. 413) | |
| 8. URBAN SYSTEMS, DEMOGRAPHY, AND THE LAWS OF GEOGRAPHY (pg. 414) | |
| 9. GROWTH, INFORMATION, AND THE EMERGENCE OF INSTITUTIONS (pg. 417) | |
| 10. WHAT ARE CITIES FOR? THE CHALLENGES AHEAD (pg. 419) | |
| APPENDIX A (pg. 419) | |
| APPENDIX C (pg. 419) | |
| APPENDIX D (pg. 419) | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY (pg. 421) | |
| INDEX (pg. 453) | |
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