Self-Organization and the City

AvJuval Portugali

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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This book integrates the theories of complex self-organizing systems with the rich body of discourse and literature developed in what might be called "social theory of cities and urbanism". This is done in several ways: First, by an explicit comparative discussion of the two theoretical bodies in conjunction with some classical issues such as the nature of cities, the urban process, urban and regional planning, decision making, and the urban revolution (or rather revolutions). Second, by developing a new family of heuristic models and using them to study the issue of socio-cultural spatial segregation in cities. We term these models FACS models (Free Agents in a Cellular Space). Third, by developing a synergetic/pattern recognition theory of cities and of decision-making in the context of city planning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-22
Mått:155 x 235 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Springer Series in Synergetics
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Medarbetare:Haken,H.
ISBN:9783540654834

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From the reviews "The author and his associates (...) are to be congratulated on such a sustained and convincing tour de force. This book succintly and succesfully discusses urban process and urban revolution, the utility of heuristic models in studying social, economic, and cultural segregation in cities, and the development of synergetic theories of cities and city planning. (...) it deserves the very widest readership in urban planning and beyond." (Environment and Planning B, 2001)

Innehållsförteckning

I On Cities and Urbanism.- 1. Cities as Concepts.- 2. Prototype Urbanisms.- 3. Self-Organizing Cities.- II City Games.- 4. Free Agents in a Cellular Space.- 5. City: The Greens and the Blues.- 6. International Migration and the Internal Structure of Cities.- 7. Spatial Cognitive Dissonance and Socio—spatial Emergence in a Self-Organizing City.- 8. Individuals’ Cultural Code and Residential Self-Organization in the City.- 9. From CA- to GIS-City.- 10. Internal Complexity and Socio-spatial Segregation of Groups in a Self-Organizing City.- III Self-Organizing Planning.- 11. Planning the Unplannable: Self-Organization and City Planning.- 12. Artificial Planning Experience.- IV Synergetic Cities.- 13. Synergetic Cities I: The Pattern Recognition Approach.- 14. Synergetic Cities II: Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Mapping and Decision-Making.- V Self-Organization and Urban Revolutions.- 15. Self-Organization and Urban Revolutions.- Concluding Notes: Self-Organizing Cities at the Gate of the 21st Century.