EAN: 9783642245435

COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES HAVE COME OF AGE ...

Today  our cities are an embodiment of the complex  historical evolution of knowledge  desires
and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations  mediated by
the existing technologies and social structures. The city represents the accretion and
accumulation of successive layers of collective activity  structuring and being structured by
other  increasingly distant cities  reaching now right around the globe. This historical and
structural development cannot therefore be understood or captured by any set of fixed
quantitative relations. Structural changes imply that the patterns of growth  and their
underlying reasons change over time  and therefore that any attempt to control the morphology
of cities and their patterns of flow by means of planning and design  must be dynamical  based
on the mechanisms that drive the changes occurring at a given moment. This carefully edited
post-proceedings volume gathers a snapshot view by leading researchers in field  of current
complexity theories of cities. In it  the achievements  criticisms and potentials yet to be
realized are reviewed and the implications to planning and urban design are assessed.

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