TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bettencourt,Luís M.A.
TI  - Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems 
SN  - 9780262046008 (hardcover)
AV  - HT361 .B4 2021
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Urbanización
KW  - Ciudades y pueblos
KW  - Crecimiento
KW  - Política urbana
KW  - Teoría de sistema
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas  (p. 399-452) e índice
N2  - Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such traditional disciplines as sociology, geography, and economics. He explores the processes facilitated by and, in many cases, unleashed for the first time by urban life through the lenses of social heterogeneity, complex networks, scaling, circular causality, and information
ER  -