Handbook on cities and complexity / edited by Juval Portugali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Portugali, Juval, editor.

Series:

Research Handbooks in Urban Studies

Research handbooks in urban studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System theory.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, England : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"Written by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over twenty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC. Examining studies from the end of 1970 through to the current leading approach to urbanism, planning and design, the book provides an up-to-date snapshot of CTC. Insightful chapters are split into five parts covering the early foundations of the topic, the evolution of towns and cities and urban complexity, modeling traffic and parking in cities, and urban planning and design. The Handbook on Cities and Complexity concludes with the contributors' personal statements on their observations of Covid-19's impact upon global cities. This book will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity and also for scholars of urban studies, planning, physics, mathematics, AI, and architecture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction to the handbook on cities and complexity / Juval Portugali

Part I: Foundations

1. Cities, complexity and beyond / Juval Portugali

2. The emergence of complexity theories: An outline / Hermann Haken

3. City systems and complexity / Michael Batty

4. Major transitions in the story of urban complexity / Stephen Marshall and Nick Green

Part II: Complexity theories of cities

5. Complexity: The evolution and planning of towns and cities / Peter M. Allen

6. Synergetic cities / Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken

7. Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity / Denise Pumain

8. Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities / Pierre Frankhauser

9. Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities / Yanguang Chen

10. Cybernetic cities: Designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems / Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti

Part III: Complexity, language and cities

11. New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: An overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised / Christopher Alexander

12. The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems / Alan Penn

Part IV: Modeling complex cities

13. Modelling car traffic in cities / Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy

14. Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: A new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning / Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

15. The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking / Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman

Part V: Complexity, planning and design

16. Complexity and uncertainty: Implications for urban planning / Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi

17. Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space / Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo

18. Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning / Sara Encarna.o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali

19. Homo faber, homo ludens and the city: A sirnia view on urban planning and design / Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19. / Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78990-012-3