| Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations Contributor(s): Roo, Gert De (Author), Hillier, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409403475 ISBN-13: 9781409403470 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $199.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
| Dewey: 307.121 |
| LCCN: 2012010057 |
| Series: New Directions in Planning Theory |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.81 lbs) 462 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future development, they question how complexity, complex systems and complexity theories might prove useful with regard to spatial planning and the physical environment. This book provides a readable overview, presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple, relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of, and facilitate working with, contingencies of place, time and the various participants' behaviours. In doing so, it should contribute to a better understanding of processes with regard to our physical and social worlds. |
