relation: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14264/
title: Catastrophe theory and urban processes
creator: Casti, J.
creator: Swain, H.
description: 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.
publisher: Springer Berlin Hiedelberg
contributor: Cea, J.
date: 1975
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Casti, J. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/1179.html> & Swain, H. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2436.html>  (1975).  Catastrophe theory and urban processes.    In:  Optimization Techniques Modeling and Optimization in the Service of Man Part 1. Eds. Cea, J., pp. 388-406 Germany: Springer Berlin Hiedelberg.  ISBN 978-3-540-38144-0 10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483 <https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483>.     
relation: 10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483
identifier: 10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483
doi: 10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483