Colleagues may be interested in Michael Batty's new book The New Science of Cities (just published in 2013 by MIT Press). 

There is a detailed description on his web site www.complexcity.info of the book and its contents:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-science-cities and http://www.amazon.com/The-Science-Cities-Michael-Batty/dp/0262019523

Best Price at AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=batty&sts=t&tn=the+new+science+of+cities

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Preamble

 

I Foundations and Prerequisites

1 Building a Science of Cities

2 Ebb and Flow: Interaction, Gravity, and Potential 47

3 Connections and Correlations: The Science of Networks

 

II The Science of Cities

4 The Growth of Cities: Rank, Size, and Clocks

5 Hierarchies and Networks

6 Urban Structure as Space Syntax

7 Distance in Complex Networks

8 Fractal Growth and Form

9 Urban Simulation

 

III The Science of Design

10 Hierarchical Design

11 Markovian Design Machines

12 A Theory for Collective Action

13 Urban Development as Exchange

14 Plan Design as Committee Decision Making

 

Conclusions: A Future Science

 

References

Author Index

Subject Index