عنوان

The City and Its Sciences

3642959296

3642959318

9783642959295

9783642959318

b554446

The City and Its Sciences

[Book]

edited by Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela.

Heidelberg

Physica-Verlag HD

1998

1(XX, 914 Seiten 123 Illustrationen)

The City as a Highly Complex Entity: Cities as Self-Organizing Complex Systems; A Short Discussion of Alternative Approaches to Modelling Complex Self-Organizing Systems; The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Organisation; On the Foundations of Social Dynamics: An Efficient Mathematical Statement of a General Framework Underlying a Complex Nonlinear Social Determinism: A Supra-Observer and a Suprastructure; Urban Development as a Guided Self-Organisation Process; Strange Loops, Tangled Hierarchies and Urban Self-Regulation; The Fractal Geometry of Urban Organisation: Beyond the Crisis of 'Spontaneous Order'; The Complexity Paradigm in Architecture.- The Sciences of the City: Urban Research and Complexity; Beyond Complexity in Urban Development Studies; Model, Plan and Process for the Control of Urban Systems; Self-Referential Processes of Spatial Integration; Innovation, Agglomeration and Complexity in Urban Systems; The Sciences of the City: Analytical Tools and Complexity; Towards a Semiotic Theory of the City and the Territory as a Landscape; Assessing Uncertainty and Complexity in Urban Systems.- The Planning of the City: The Nexus between Analysis and Design: A Case Study of an Uneasy Relationship; Order and Change, Rule and Strategy; Selected Issues of Urban Planning; New Conditions and Requirements for Urban Government; Town Planning and Fluctuations of Rules Covering Time and Space; China in Search of a New Planning Paradigm; The Paradoxical Nature of Territorial Change: Science Parks and the Case of Trieste; Strategic Planning in Italy and the New Local Authority Act: The Master Plan for the City of Venice; The Art of the Science of the City.- The Methodologies of the Urban Sciences: Design and Use of Information Systems for a Sustainable Complex City; An Information System for Planning Mobility and Transport in the Metropolis: Proposed Methodology for Setting up an Integrated Tool for DecisionSupport; Urban Information Systems and Sustainable Urban Development; Towards the Complex City: Approaches and Experiments in Spatial Economics; Mathematical Models for Simulating Urban Mobility Systems: State of the Art and Lines of Development; A New Perspective for Methodologies in Spatial and Urban Analysis; Towards an Environmentally Compatible Mobility in the Region of Stuttgart.

It is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the subject drawn from a long-term project and seminar, held in Italy, to review the state of the art and speculate on the future influence on the "sciences of the city" of the complexity concept.

Economics.

Geography.

Regional planning.

edited by Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela.

Alfredo Mela

Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia

Giuliano Bianchi

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