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The question we explore in this essay is one which has been in the background of the discussion of this whole book: to what extent can we justifiably speak of ‘city sciences’? Though expressed here in simple form, this question in reality raises two fundamental problems, as well as the relationship between the two.
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Mela, A., Preto, G. (1998). Self-Referential Processes of Spatial Integration. In: Bertuglia, C.S., Bianchi, G., Mela, A. (eds) The City and Its Sciences. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95929-5_13
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