The Cosmo-Creative Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Logistical Dynamics, Creativity and Infrastructure

   1. Logistical Dynamics, Creativity and Infrastructure

      • Åke E. Andersson, David F. Batten, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa

      Pages 1-16

3. Cosmo-Creativity in the Knowledge Society

   1. Economic Structure of the 21st Century

      • Åke E. Andersson

      Pages 17-29

   2. The Creative Person

      • Gudmund J. W. Smith

      Pages 31-44

   3. Synergetics as a Theory of Creativity and Its Planning

      • Hermann Haken

      Pages 45-51

   4. High Technology Worker Mobility

      • Christer Anderstig, Björn Hårsman

      Pages 53-66

4. Logistical Network and Chaotic Dynamics

   1. Some Consequences of ‘Recurrence and Expansion’: What Can We Learn about Logistic Networks from Chaos?

      • Donald G. Saari

      Pages 67-80

   2. The Complexity of Economic Decisions — Anticipatory Human Behavior

      • Wei-Bin Zhang

      Pages 81-93

   3. Incomplete Information and Logistical Network Equilibria

      • Kiyoshi Kobayashi

      Pages 95-119

5. Network Dynamics with Cosmo-Creativity

   1. Entrepreneurship in the New Technological Regime

      • Norio Okada

      Pages 121-135

   2. Network Cities Versus Central Place Cities: Building a Cosmo-Creative Constellation

      • David F. Batten

      Pages 137-150

   3. Economic Evolution and Urban Infrastructure Dynamics

      • Börje Johansson

      Pages 151-175

6. Infrastructure for the Cosmo-Creative Society

   1. Information Technology and Urban Spatial Structure

      • Komei Sasaki

      Pages 177-195

   2. Impacts of Developments in Telecommunication Systems on Travel Demand and the Location of Office Firms

      • Se-il Mun

      Pages 197-217

   3. Spatial Equilibria of Knowledge Production with ‘Meeting-Facilities’

      • Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Seishin Sunao, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa

      Pages 219-244

   4. Dynamic Change of Urban Housing Stock, Construction and Demolition

      • Masuo Kashiwadani

      Pages 245-261

   5. Optimal Regional Investment Control Using Hallmark Events

      • Makoto Okumura, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Eizo Hideshima

      Pages 263-280

7. Planning and Policy Perspectives

   1. Creative Renaissance of the Osaka Bay Area — Towards a Cosmo-Creative Region in the 21st Century

      • Kazuhiro Yoshikawa

      Pages 281-294

8. Back Matter

   Pages 295-296

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Today, telecommunication systems are expanding and evolving at a remarkable rate, with the aid of fiber optics, satellites and comput­ erized switchboard systems. Airline systems are providing faster and more efficient networks for world-wide human transportation. Com­ puters are now generally accessible to virtually all industries and many households. But perhaps the most important factor is that education systems are expanding the knowledge base for city populations, thus resulting in increased efficiency in the use of computers, telecommuni­ cations and rapid transportation systems. The revolutionary age of logistical networks is upon lIS. Logistical networks are those systems which facilitate the movement of knowl­ edge, commodities, money, and people in association with thE; produc­ tion or consumption of goods and services. Logistical networks form a set of important infrastructure which serve as hard and soft means to sustain all kinds of movement, transactions and diffusion within and between global networks of cities. Major structural changes in the re­ gional and urban economy, culture and institutions are triggered by slow but steady changes in global logistical systems.

• Communication
• Creativity
• Dynamische Ökonomie
• Infrastructure
• Infrastruktur
• Japan
• Kommunikation
• Kreativität
• USA
• mobility
• network
• networks
• structural change
• transportation

• Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

  Åke E. Andersson

• Department of Regional Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  David F. Batten

• Department of Social Systems Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori 680, Japan

  Kiyoshi Kobayashi

• Kyoto University, School of Civil Engineering, Kyoto 606, Japan

  Kazuhiro Yoshikawa

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