In the book ‘The New Science of Cities’, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows.
To understand space,Michael Batty argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks – the relations between objects that comprise the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function.
Batty presents the foundations of a new science of cities, defining flows and their networks and introducing tools that can be applied to understanding different aspects of city structure.
