Full Description
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future development, they question how complexity, complex systems and complexity theories might prove useful with regard to spatial planning and the physical environment. This book provides a readable overview, presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple, relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of, and facilitate working with, contingencies of place, time and the various participants' behaviours. In doing so, it should contribute to a better understanding of processes with regard to our physical and social worlds.
Contents
1: Complexity and Spatial Planning; I: Theoretical Reflections Bridging Complexity and Planning; 2: Baroque Complexity; 3: Planning in Complexity; 4: Transformative Practice as an Exploration of Possibility Spaces; II: Complex Systems and Planning, in between the Real and the Relative; 5: Complexity Theories of Cities; 6: Spatial Planning, Complexity and a World 'Out of Equilibrium'; 7: Complexity and Transition Management; 8: Coevolutionary Planning Processes; 9: Climate Adaptation in Complex Governance Systems; 10: Beyond Blueprints? Complexity Theory as a Prospective Influence for Metropolitan Governance; 11: Considering Complex Systems; III: Assemblage and a Relational Attitude to Planning; 12: A Different View of Relational Complexity. Imagining Places through the Deleuzean Social Cartography; 13: On the Emergence of Agency in Participatory Strategic Planning; 14: Population Thinking in Architecture; 15: Coevolving Adaptive and Power Networks; IV: Simulating in between the Real and the Ideal; 16: The Metaverse as Lab to Experiment with Problems of Organized Complexity; 17: The Use of Agent-Based Modeling for Studying the Social and Physical Environment of Cities; 18: Building Mega-Models for Megacities
