INVENTING FUTURE CITIES

We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply/ cities are the product of countles s individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions/ they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future.