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This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different "parts" (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving "whole".
The book explores the evolution and destruction of complexity in one city - Greater Manchester - but also other post-industrial cities, including Sheffield and Newcastle, Detroit and New Haven. The focus is on the networked qualities of public urban space, and how street networks work as multiscale systems. The book also explores economic networks, and the evolving sets of interconnecting economic capabilities which help to shape urban economies. It demonstrates how cities evolve through processes of self-organisation - and concludes by considering how policy makers can best harness such processes as they rebuild urban complexity following insensitive planning interventions in the 1960s and 1970s.
The book will appeal to anybody with an interest in cities, and how they work. It is interdisciplinary in scope, weaving in strands from architecture, economics, history, anthropology and ecology. It is written for academics but also non-academics, including urban planners, architects, local economic development actors and other policy makers.
Contents
List of figures and maps
List of boxes
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter 1: Why focus on urban complexity?
Chapter 2: Theories of complexity
Chapter 3: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban economies
Chapter 4: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban space
Chapter 5: Bringing together configurational analysis of economies and space
PART TWO
Chapter 6: How local economies evolve and branch
Chapter 7: How spatial complexity evolves and supports branching economies
Chapter 8: Waterproofing: a case study
Chapter 9: The destruction of urban complexity
PART THREE
Chapter 10: Cities as systems of systems: where nature fits in
Chapter 11: Rebuilding urban complexity: how can policy makers intervene?
Index
