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An important aspect of evolutionary systems is related to space; any economic activities occur in a certain time and space. Interactions between different economic variables become strong over space as transportation and communication conditions are improved. It is important to understand the characteristics of such spatial interactions.
If, therefore, those cultivators of the physical science from whom the intelligent public deduce their conception of the physicist ... are led in pursuit of the arcane of science to the study of singularities and instabilities, rather than the continuities and stabilities of things, the promotion of natural knowledge may tend to remove that prejudice in favour of determinism which seems to arise from assuming that the physical science of the future is a mere magnified image of that of the past.
James Clerk Maxwell (quoted after Schuster 1988)
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Zhang, WB. (1991). Urban Pattern Formation Process — Stability, Structural Changes and Chaos. In: Synergetic Economics. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75909-3_8
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