Urban Systems and Historical Path-dependence
Author | : W. Brian Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 198? |
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Author | : Advisory Committee on Technology and Society |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1988-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309037867 |
Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Author | : W. Brian Arthur |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780472022403 |
Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.
Author | : Raghu Garud |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 113570631X |
The editors, aware of the recent work in evolutionary theory and the science of chaos and complexity, challenge the sometimes deterministic flavor of this subject. They are interested in uncovering the place of agency in these theories that take history so seriously. In the end, they are as interested in path creation and destruction as they are in path dependence. This book is compiled of both theoretical and empirical writings. It shows relatively well-known industries, such as the automobile, biotechnology, and semi-conductor industries in a new light. It also invites the reader to learn more about medical practices, wind power, lasers, and synthesizers. Primarily written for academicians, researchers, and Ph.D. students in fields related to technology management, this book is research-oriented and will appeal to all managers.
Author | : Sebastian Haumann |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 383944375X |
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. »Concepts of Urban-Environmental History« aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They address unresolved questions and future challenges. As a handbook, the collection offers a comprehensive overview for researchers and students, both from a historical and an interdisciplinary background.
Author | : Bert De Munck |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351245767 |
This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and guild ethic originating in medieval Germanic and Christian traditions, guild-based artisans succeeded in being accepted as genuine political (and, hence, rational) actors – their political identity and agency being based upon their skills and trustworthiness. In the long run, this corporative spirit and power inexorably waned. Yet this book shows that an adequate understanding of the development of European modernity – i.e., proletarianisation and the emergence of a modern economy and modern economic and political thinking – requires taking seriously the ruins upon which it is build. These histories can actually be recounted as purifications of sorts, in which the economic was separated from the political, the individual from the social, and the transcendent from the material. While the religiously inspired corporative nature of the urban body politic waned, the urban artisans lost their credibility as political (and rational) actors.
Author | : Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3319519573 |
This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Based Modelling of Urban Systems, ABMUS 2016, held in conjunction with AAMAS 2016 in Singapore in May 2016. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: urban systems modeling; traffic simulation in urban modeling; and applications.
Author | : Ron A. Boschma |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847204910 |
This wide-ranging handbook studies and defines the paradigm of evolutionary economic geography. The distinguished contributors highlight the key conceptual, theoretical and empirical advances, and present a clear statement of their aims, objectives and methods.
Author | : Joel Dearden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317698525 |
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear systems in general have three characteristics: multiple equilibria, ‘path dependence’ over time and phase transitions – that is, abrupt change at critical parameter values. These phenomena all exhibit themselves in reality, and it is an ongoing task to match model-based analysis with real phenomena. There are three key features of cities and regions to be represented in models: activities at a location – residence, health, education, work and shopping; flows between locations – spatial interaction; and the structures that carry these activities – buildings, transport and communications networks. Spatial interaction and many elements of activities’ location can be modelled by statistical averaging procedures, which are related to Boltzmann’s methods in statistical mechanics. This is while the evolution of structure can be represented in equations that connect to the Lotka-Volterra equations in ecology. Within this broad framework, alternative approaches can be brought to bear. This book uses entropy-maximising versions of spatial interaction models. The authors explore the dynamics in more detail, using advanced visualisation techniques. These ideas have wide potential uses, and the book illustrates this with applications in history and archaeology.
Author | : Philip W. Anderson |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2018-03-12 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0429972474 |
This book proceeds from a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute where economists and physical and biological scientists came together to discuss a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropriate mathematics with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with multiple variables, nonlinearity, incomplete information and dynamical processes.