"Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do - Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading...

In einer Studie zur Sozialgeschichte der Sozialwissenschaften rekonstruiert die Arbeitsgruppe Metropolenforschung eines der ehrgeizigsten Unternehmen der Stadtforschung, die es im deutschsprachigen Raum gegeben hat: die 50 Bände der "Großstadt-Dokumente" aus den Jahren 1904 bis 1908. Zur...

"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 nonlinear...