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Complex Artificial Environments - Simulation, Cognition and VR in the Study and Planning of Cities (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
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Complex Artificial Environments - Simulation, Cognition and VR in the Study and Planning of Cities (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
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Juval Portugali The notion of complex artificial environments (CAE)
refers to theories of c- plexity and self-organization, as well as
to artifacts in general, and to artificial - vironments, such as
cities, in particular. The link between the two, however, is not
trivial. For one thing, the theories of complexity and
self-organization originated in the "hard" science and by reference
to natural phenomena in physics and bi- ogy. The study of
artifacts, per contra, has traditionally been the business of the
"soft" disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The
notion of "complex artificial environments" thus implies the
supposition that the theories of compl- ity and self-organization,
together with the mathematical formalisms and meth- ologies
developed for their study, apply beyond the domain of nature. Such
a s- st position raises a whole set of questions relating to the
nature of 21 century cities and urbanism, to philosophical issues
regarding the natural versus the artificial, to the methodological
legitimacy of interdisciplinary transfer of theories and me-
odologies and to the implications that entail the use of
sophisticated, state-of-t- art artifacts such as virtual reality
(VR) cities and environments. The three-day workshop on the study
of complex artificial environments that took place on the island of
San Servolo, Venice, during April 1-3, 2004, was a gathering of
scholars engaged in the study of the various aspects of CAE.
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