Peter M. Allen.
Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems: models of complexity.
Taylor & Francis. 1996
This book gives a clear methodological and philosophical introduction
to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems
and contains a detailed series of modelling case studies
compiled over the past couple of decades.
Based on the new complex systems thinking,
mathematical models are developed which attempt to simulate the evolution
of towns, cities and regions and the complicated co-evolutionary interaction
there is both between and within them.
This innovative text will be an invaluable guide to the complex systems approach for urban and rural planners and graduate and advanced undergraduate geography students studying spatial modelling.
