X and the city: modeling aspects of urban life

Cancer, Princess Dido, and the city

Getting to the city

Living in the city

Eating in the city

Gardening in the city

Summer in the city

Not driving in the city!

Driving in the city

Probability in the city

Traffic in the city

Car following in the city-I

Car following in the city-II

Congestion in the city

Roads in the city

Sex and the city

Growth and the city

The axiomatic city

Scaling in the city

Air pollution in the city

Light in the city

Nighttime in the city-I

Nighttime in the city-II

Lighthouses in the city

Disaster in the city?

Getting away from the city

Appendix 1. Theorems for Princess Dido

Appendix 2. Dido and the sinc function

Appendix 3. Taxicab geometry

Appendix 4. The Poisson distribution

Appendix 5. The method of Lagrange multipliers

Appendix 6. A spiral braking path

Appendix 7. The average distance between two random points in a circle

Appendix 8. Informal "derivation" of the logistic differential equation

Appendix 9. A miniscule [sic] introduction to fractals

Appendix 10. Random walks and the diffusion equation - -Appendix 11. Rainbow/halo details

Appendix 12. The Earth as vacuum cleaner?