Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference

Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference / edited by Juval Portugali, Egbert Stolk.

This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Portugali, Juval (Editor), Stolk, Egbert (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer Proceedings in Complexity,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Urban geography.
Computational complexity.
Urban planning.
City planning.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Complexity, Cognition and Cities
  • 1. What makes cities complex?
  • 2. Evolving a Plan: Design and Planning with Complexity
  • 3. Self-organization and design as complementary pair
  • 4. Cultivating complexity: The need for a shift in cognition
  • 5. The fourth sustainability, creativity: Statistical associations and credible mechanism
  • 6. Design thinking as principles for the structure of creative cities
  • Part II: On Termites, Rats and Cities
  • 7. Swarm cognition and swarm construction. Lessons from a social insect master builder
  • 8. Physical, Behavioral, and Spatiotemporal Perspectives of Home in Humans and other Animals
  • Part III: Complexity, Cognition and Planning
  • 9. Framing the Planning Game: A cognitive understanding of the planner’s rationale in a differentiated world
  • 10. Global scale predictions of cities in urban and in cognitive planning
  • 11. Emotional cognition and urban planning
  • Part IV: Complexity, Cognition and Design
  • 12. A Complexity-Cognitive view on Scale in Urban Design
  • 13. Lines: Orderly and Messy.

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