Handbook on Cities and Complexity

Edited by Juval Portugali, Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography and the Human Environment and Head of the Cities and Complexity Research Group, Archimedes Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

'This is a fascinating collection of discussions by leading authors, ranging from philosophical perspectives to conceptual frameworks and mathematical models across many disciplines. A unifying theme is the role of human cognition and decision making, addressed via psychology, uncertainty and risk, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics and more. The book should be a reference to anyone interested in the history of the field and as a source of ideas for the opportunities (and challenges) of treating cities as complex systems in contrast to less holistic approaches to urban planning and policy.'

• Contents:Introduction to the Handbook on Cities and Complexity 1Juval PortugaliPART I FOUNDATIONS1 Cities, complexity and beyond 13Juval Portugali2 The emergence of complexity theories: an outline 28Hermann Haken3 City systems and complexity 48Michael Batty4 Major transitions in the story of urban complexity 64Stephen Marshall and Nick GreenPART II COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES5 Complexity: the evolution and planning of towns and cities 86Peter M. Allen6 Synergetic cities 108Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken7 Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity 136Denise Pumain8 Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planningsustainable cities 154Pierre Frankhauser9 Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities 176Yanguang Chen10 Cybernetic cities: designing and controlling adaptive and robust urbansystems 195Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo RattiPART III COMPLEXITY, LANGUAGE AND CITIES11 New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field ofarchitecture: an overview of the four books of the nature of order withemphasis on the scientific problems which are raised 210Christopher Alexander12 The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems 233Alan PennPART IV MODELING COMPLEX CITIES13 Modelling car traffic in cities 260Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy14 Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a newmethodology for real-time urban and transportation planning 274Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal15 The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking 295Itzhak Benenson and Nir FulmanPART V COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND DESIGN16 Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning 319Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi17 Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space 331Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo18 Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning 349Sara Encarna..o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, MargaridaPereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali19 Homo faber, Homo ludens and the city: a SIRNIA view on urban planningand design 370Juval PortugaliEpilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19 391Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green,Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, VincentVerbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma,Ward S. Rauws and Gert de RooIndex