{"product_id":"the-computable-city-isbn-9780262547574","title":"The Computable City","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt every stage in the history of computers and communications, it is safe to say we have been unable to predict what happens next. When computers first appeared nearly seventy-five years ago, primitive computer models were used to help understand and plan cities, but as computers became faster, smaller, more powerful, and ever more ubiquitous, cities themselves began to embrace them. As a result, the smart city emerged. In \u003ci\u003eThe Computable City\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Batty investigates the circularity of this peculiar evolution: how computers and communications changed the very nature of our city models, which, in turn, are used to simulate systems composed of those same computers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBatty first charts the origins of computers and examines how our computational urban models have developed and how they have been enriched by computer graphics. He then explores the sequence of digital revolutions and how they are converging, focusing on continual changes in new technologies, as well as the twenty-first-century surge in social media, platform economies, and the planning of the smart city. He concludes by revisiting the digital transformation as it continues to confound us, with the understanding that the city, now a high-frequency twenty-four-hour version of itself, changes our understanding of what is possible.Preface\u003cbr\u003ePreamble\u003cbr\u003e1 The Unpredictable Technology\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Computers and Information\u003cbr\u003e2 The Information Mile\u003cbr\u003e3 Turing’s Legacy\u003cbr\u003e4 The PC Revolution\u003cbr\u003e5 Networks: The Final Piece in the Jigsaw\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Cities and Urbanization\u003cbr\u003e6: The Standard Model\u003cbr\u003e7 The Death of Distance\u003cbr\u003e8 Building Cyberspace\u003cbr\u003e9 High and Low Frequency Cities\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Models and Computation\u003cbr\u003e10 Simulations, Models and Predictions\u003cbr\u003e11 Drawing, Mapping, and Painting the City\u003cbr\u003e12 Big Data and Urban Analytics\u003cbr\u003e13 Digital Cities and Virtual Realities\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Planning and Organization\u003cbr\u003e14 The Technological Convergence\u003cbr\u003e15 The 21st Century Technology Surge\u003cbr\u003e16 Organizing the Smart City\u003cbr\u003e17 The Unpredictable City\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eSources and Permissions\u003cbr\u003eName Index\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index“As artificial intelligence is thrusted upon us, this book provides urbanists, planners, and futurists with a timely reflection on the convergence between computers, information, and cities. . . . This book is the first comprehensive guide to the social, technological, and physical aspects of computable cities, providing insights into urban futures.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Planning Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Computable City\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork. Bringing together enormous knowledge of computer science, artificial intelligence, complex models, and urbanism, Michael Batty shows how cities stand at the very center of the new digital technologies that are reshaping our world—not only by transforming the way we communicate, work, shop, travel, and get around but as part and parcel of a new expanded, technological enabled process of urbanization and development.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Richard Florida, Professor, University of Toronto; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Creative Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Michael Batty is one of the most recognized and authoritative voices on urban science. \u003ci\u003eThe Computable City\u003c\/i\u003e is an illuminating account of the evolution of the complex terrain of urban\/data interfaces, considering the transformation of the urban world through computing and its impact on the urban future.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan Parnell, Professor of Human Geography, University of Bristol; Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town\u003c\/b\u003eMichael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and a Turing Fellow in the Alan Turing Institute. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eInventing Future Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Science of Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCities and Complexity\u003c\/i\u003e (all MIT Press). He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and the Royal Society (FRS) and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2004. He was made a Fellow of the Geographical Society of China in 2022.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305251852517,"sku":"NP9780262547574","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547574.jpg?v=1767738804","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-computable-city-isbn-9780262547574","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}