A Science of Cities. Spatial Complexity. This course provides an outline of the complexity sciences with a specific focus on spatial systems such as cities, regions, built environments and related human systems.
A particular perspective that is developed is related to the distribution of entities that comprise such systems with a focus on scaling, emergence, and nonlinearity, set within the wider context of new modeling styles such as those involving agents and cells, agent based modeling (ABM) and cellular automata (CA). Lecture 1: Defining Complexity Lecture 2: Hierarchies, Emergence, Feedback, and NonLinearity. I see data, I make maps. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks.