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COMPLEXITY COGNITION URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN ...

This book  which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines
- complexity theorists  cognitive scientists  philosophers  urban planners and urban designers
as well as a zoologist and a physiologist - addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a
first step in responding to the challenge of generating just such a discourse  based on a
dilemma identified in the CTC (Complexity Theories of Cities) domain. The latter has
demonstrated that cities exhibit the properties of natural  organic complex systems: they are
open  complex and bottom-up  have fractal structures and are often chaotic. CTC have further
shown that many of the mathematical formalisms and models developed to study material and
organic complex systems also apply to cities. The dilemma in the current state of CTC is that
cities differ from natural complex systems in that they are hybrid complex systems composed  on
the one hand  of artifacts such as buildings  roads and bridges  and of natural human agents on
the other. This raises a plethora of new questions on the difference between the natural and
the artificial  the cognitive origin of human action and behavior  and the role of planning and
designing cities. The answers to these questions cannot come from a single discipline  they
must instead emerge from a discourse between experts from several disciplines engaged in CTC.

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