Batty Michael - Inventing Future Cities - Paperback Italo-Disco Author(s): Walpole Brenda

Author(s): Walpole Brenda

Publication Date: 9/7/2009

Barcode: 819514011965

Following the style set with previous books in the 100 series most notably 100 Children's Books and 100 Science Discoveries each author is given a concise biography and their major novel analysed and then set in context with their other published work

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Batty Michael - Inventing Future Cities - Paperback Italo-Disco Author(s): Walpole BrendaBinding: Paperback Description: How we can invent but not predict the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our