Download or read book Self-Organization and the City written by Juval Portugali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second, by developing a new family of heuristic models and using them to study the issue of socio-cultural spatial segregation in cities. We term these models FACS model (Free Agents in a Cellular Space). Third, by developing a synergetic/pattern recognition theory of cities and of decision-making in the context of city planning."--BOOK JACKET.