Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

An important aim of this book is to show that many well-known phenomena and empirical regularities of cities are intrinsically interconnected and can be made sense of from a common body of theory.

ecology, to sociology, to economics.

cities as complex adaptive systems exhibit to various degrees the following properties: heterogeneity, interconnectivity, scaling, circular causality, and evolution.

stochastic population dynamics of interacting, strategic, heterogeneous agents.