TY - CHAP CY - Germany ID - iiasa14264 UR - https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14264/ A1 - Casti, J. A1 - Swain, H. N2 - 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. ED - Cea, J. M1 - 40 TI - Catastrophe theory and urban processes AV - none EP - 406 Y1 - 1975/// PB - Springer Berlin Hiedelberg T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 0302-9743 SP - 388 T2 - Optimization Techniques Modeling and Optimization in the Service of Man Part 1 ER -