Complexity in city systems: Understanding, evolution, and design

A Planner's Encounter with Complexity

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-121

  Batty, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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