eprintid: 14264 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/01/42/64 datestamp: 2017-01-17 12:37:29 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:28:26 status_changed: 2017-01-17 12:37:29 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Casti, J. creators_name: Swain, H. creators_id: 974 creators_id: AL0380 title: Catastrophe theory and urban processes ispublished: pub divisions: prog_hss 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. date: 1975 date_type: published publisher: Springer Berlin Hiedelberg id_number: 10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483 creators_browse_id: 1179 creators_browse_id: 2436 full_text_status: none series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume: 40 number: 40 place_of_pub: Germany pagerange: 388-406 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-3-540-38144-0 issn: 0302-9743 book_title: Optimization Techniques Modeling and Optimization in the Service of Man Part 1 editors_name: Cea, J. coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart citation: Casti, J. & Swain, H. (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 .