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