"A history of how computers are being used to simulate cities which in turn are increasingly being built from those same computers which are being embedded into the city's social and economic fabric"--

Preface
Preamble
1 The Unpredictable Technology
Part I: Computers and Information
2 The Information Mile
3 Turing’s Legacy
4 The PC Revolution
5 Networks: The Final Piece in the Jigsaw
Part II: Cities and Urbanization
6: The Standard Model
7 The Death of Distance
8 Building Cyberspace
9 High and Low Frequency Cities
Part III: Models and Computation
10 Simulations, Models and Predictions
11 Drawing, Mapping, and Painting the City
12 Big Data and Urban Analytics
13 Digital Cities and Virtual Realities
Part IV: Planning and Organization
14 The Technological Convergence
15 The 21st Century Technology Surge
16 Organizing the Smart City
17 The Unpredictable City
Notes
References
Sources and Permissions
Name Index
Subject Index

Michael 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 Inventing Future Cities, The New Science of Cities, and Cities and Complexity (all MIT Press). He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and the Royal Society (FRS) and was 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.