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Urban Complexity and Planning - Theories and Computer Simulations (Paperback)
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Urban Complexity and Planning - Theories and Computer Simulations (Paperback)
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In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities
evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of
complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by
differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects
interacting in a complex way in the urban development process. This
'bottom up' approach to urban modeling not only transforms our
understanding of cities, but also improves our capabilities of
harnessing the urban development process. For example, we used to
think that plans control urban development in an aggregate,
holistic way, but what actually happens is that plans only affect
differentiated actors in seeking their goals through information.
In other words, plans and regulations set restrictions or
incentives of individual behaviour in the urban development process
through imposing rights, information, and prices, and the analysis
of the effects of plans and regulations must take into account the
complex urban dynamics at a disaggregate level of the urban
development process. Computer simulations provide a rigorous,
promising analytic tool that serves as a supplement to the
traditional, mathematical approach to depicting complex urban
dynamics. Based on the emergent paradigm of complexity, the book
provides an innovative set of arguments about how we can gain a
better understanding of how cities emerge and function through
computer simulations, and how plans affect the evolution of complex
urban systems in a way distinct from what we used to think they
should. Empirical case studies focus on the development of a
compact urban hierarchy in Taiwan, China, and the USA, but derive
more generalizable principles and relationships among cities,
complexity, and planning.
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