Full Description
Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality. The author provides a new framework for the collective intelligence - the capacity for learning and synergy - in many-layered cities, technologies, economies, ecologies and political systems.
The key is in synergistic mapping and design, which can move beyond smart 'winner-takes-all' competition, towards wiser human systems of cooperation where 'winners-are-all'. Forty distinct pathways 'from smart to wise' are mapped in Deeper City and presented for strategic action, ranging from local neighbourhoods to global finance.
As an atlas of the future, and resource library of pathway mappings, this book expands on the author's previous work, City-Region 2020. From a decade of development and testing, Deeper City combines visual thinking with a narrative style and practical guidance. This book will be indispensable for those seeking a sustainable future - students, politicians, planners, systems designers, activists, engineers and researchers.
A new postscript looks at how these methods can work with respect to the 2020 pandemic, and asks, 'How can we turn crisis towards transformation?'
Contents
PROLOGUE 1.1 What's the big idea? Deeper questions
1.2 What's the big picture? Wider visions
1.3 What's a Deeper City? Concepts and FAQs
1.4 Where to start? Book-in-use
2. PROSPECTS
2.1 Here there be dragons: Think-onomics-III
2.2 The future starts now: Nexus-connexus
2.3 Cases and places: City-state-planet
3. TOOLKITS
3.1 Where to start: Synergistics-Landscape
3.2 What's the problem: System-Mapping
3.3 What's coming up: Scenario-Mapping
3.4 What's the vision: Synergy-Mapping
3.5 What's to be done: Strategy-Mapping
3.6 What next: Toolkits-III
4. CITIES
4.1 What problem: Cities-Landscape
4.2 Where to live: Neighbourhood-III
4.3 How to build: Housing-III
4.4 How to renew: Retrofit-III
4.5 Where to build: City-region-III
4.6 Where not to build: Anti-city-region-III
4.7 How to plan: Civic-design-III
4.8 Pathways: Cities-III
5. ECONOMIES
5.1 What problem: Economies-Landscape
5.2 Where to work: Local-onomics-III
5.3 Which resources: Circul-onomics-III
5.4 How to create value: Enterprise-III
5.5 How to invest: Finance-III
5.6 How to grow and why: Prosperity-III
5.7 Pathways: Economies-III
6. ECOLOGIES
6.1 What problem: Ecologies-Landscape
6.2 How to be green: Eco-Urban-III
6.3 How to be cool: Climate-III
6.4 How to thrive: Adaptation-III
6.5 How to grow and eat: Food-III
6.6 Pathways: Ecologies-III
7. TECHNOLOGIES
7.1 What problem: Technologies-Landscape
7.2 On the frontier: Informatics-III
7.3 On the value-chain: Smart-Services-III
7.4 On the platform: Smart-Communities-III
7.5 How to learn: Education-III
7.6 How to know: Science-III
7.7 Pathways: Tech-Knowledges-III
8. POLITICALS
8.1 What problem: Political-Landscape
8.2 Where to take control: Multi-level-III
8.3 How to manage: Organizations-III
8.4 How to be well-fair: Public-Service-III
8.5 Who gets what: Equalities-III
8.6 The state to come: Co-opolism-III
8.7 Pathways for a Politics-III
9. INSIGHTS
9.1 How to think: Deeper-Mind-III
9.2 How to decide: E/Valuation-III
9.3 How to thrive: Resilience-III
9.4 How to look ahead: Foresight-III
10. LOCAL-GLOBAL
10.1 From personal to political: Societal-III
10.2 Where and when: Developmental-III
10.3 All in the mind: Global-III
10.4 What next: Multi-versity-III
11. MIND-GAMES
Postscript: From crisis to transformation
12. ANNEX
121 Glossary and abbreviations
12.2 Summary tables
Bibliography
Index
