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Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design - Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design - Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Springer Proceedings in Complexity
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This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between
experts from several disciplines - complexity theorists, cognitive
scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as
well as a zoologist and a physiologist - addresses various issues
regarding cities. It is a first step in responding to the challenge
of generating just such a discourse, based on a dilemma identified
in the CTC (Complexity Theories of Cities) domain. The latter has
demonstrated that cities exhibit the properties of natural, organic
complex systems: they are open, complex and bottom-up, have fractal
structures and are often chaotic. CTC have further shown that many
of the mathematical formalisms and models developed to study
material and organic complex systems also apply to cities. The
dilemma in the current state of CTC is that cities differ from
natural complex systems in that they are hybrid complex systems
composed, on the one hand, of artifacts such as buildings, roads
and bridges, and of natural human agents on the other. This raises
a plethora of new questions on the difference between the natural
and the artificial, the cognitive origin of human action and
behavior, and the role of planning and designing cities. The
answers to these questions cannot come from a single discipline;
they must instead emerge from a discourse between experts from
several disciplines engaged in CTC.
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