@incollection{iiasa14264,
          volume = {40},
          number = {40},
          series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science,},
       booktitle = {Optimization Techniques Modeling and Optimization in the Service of Man Part 1},
          editor = {J. Cea},
           title = {Catastrophe theory and urban processes},
         address = {Germany},
       publisher = {Springer Berlin Hiedelberg},
            year = {1975},
             doi = {10.1007/3-540-07622-0\_483},
           pages = {388--406},
             url = {https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14264/},
            isbn = {978-3-540-38144-0},
            issn = {0302-9743},
        abstract = {Phenomena exhibiting discontinuous change, divergent processes, and hysteresis can be modelled with catastrophe theory, a recent development in differential topology. Exposition of the theory is illustrated by qualitative interpretations of the appearance of functions in central place systems, and of price cycles for urban housing.},
          author = {Casti, J. and Swain, H.}
}