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Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design

Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Juval Portugali

    1. Environmental simulation lab (ESLab), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Egbert Stolk

    1. Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Complexity (SPCOM)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Complexity, Cognition and Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What Makes Cities Complex?

      • Juval Portugali
      Pages 3-19

    3. Evolving a Plan: Design and Planning with Complexity

      • Michael Batty
      Pages 21-42

    4. Self-organization and Design as a Complementary Pair

      • J. A. Scott Kelso, Egbert Stolk, Juval Portugali
      Pages 43-53

    5. Cultivating Complexity: The Need for a Shift in Cognition

      • N. John Habraken
      Pages 55-74

    6. The Fourth Sustainability, Creativity: Statistical Associations and Credible Mechanisms

      • Bill Hillier
      Pages 75-92

    7. Design Thinking as Principles for the Structure of Creative Cities

      • Andy Dong
      Pages 93-107

  3. On Termites, Rats, Other Animals and Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Swarm Cognition and Swarm Construction: Lessons from a Social Insect Master Builder

      • Scott Turner
      Pages 111-126

    3. Physical, Behavioral and Spatiotemporal Perspectives of Home in Humans and Other Animals

      • Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, David Eilam
      Pages 127-149

  5. Complexity, Cognition and Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. A Complexity-Cognitive View on Scale in Urban Design

      • Egbert Stolk, Juval Portugali
      Pages 217-235

    3. Lines: Orderly and Messy

      • Barbara Tversky
      Pages 237-250

    4. Creative Challenge and Cognitive Constraint: Students’ Use of A Pattern Language for Complex Design

      • Stephen Marshall
      Pages 251-269

    5. The Evolution of City Gaming

      • Ekim Tan
      Pages 271-292
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About this book

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 responding to the challenge of generating just such a discourse, based on a dilemma identified in the CTC (Complexity Theories of Cities) domain. The latter has demonstrated that cities exhibit the properties of natural, organic complex systems: they are open, complex and bottom-up, have fractal structures and are often chaotic. CTC have further shown that many of the mathematical formalisms and models developed to study material and organic complex systems also apply to cities. The dilemma in the current state of CTC is that cities differ from natural complex systems in that they are hybrid complex systems composed, on the one hand, of artifacts such as buildings, roads and bridges, and ofnatural human agents on the other. This raises a plethora of new questions on the difference between the natural and the artificial, the cognitive origin of human action and behavior, and the role of planning and designing cities. The answers to these questions cannot come from a single discipline; they must instead emerge from a discourse between experts from several disciplines engaged in CTC.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental simulation lab (ESLab), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Juval Portugali

  • Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Egbert Stolk

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