A Geometry of Form and Function
Michael Batty & Paul Longley (1994) (Academic Press, San Francisco and London, 1994)
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(20 MB) Introduction
(48 MB) 1 The Shape of Cities: Geometry, Morphology, Complexity and Form
(38 MB) 2 Size and Shape, Scale and Dimension
(28 MB) 3 Simulating Cities and Fractal Picturescapes
(31 MB) 4 Laboratories for Visualising Urban Form
(26 MB) 5 Urban Boundaries and Edges
(21 MB) 6 The Morphology of Urban Land Use
(36 MB) 7 Urban Growth and Form
(28 MB) 8 Generating and Growing the Fractal City
(21 MB) 9 Form Follows Function: Reformulating Population Density Functions
(27 MB) 10 Extending the Geometry to Systems of Fractal Cities
(3 MB) Conclusions
(18 MB) Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index