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The City and Its Sciences

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecniche per i Processi di Insediamento, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italia

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  2. Giuliano Bianchi

    1. Rete dell’Alta Tecnologia, Regione Toscana Firenze, Italia

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  3. Alfredo Mela

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecniche per i Processi di Insediamento, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italia

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  • A wide-ranging panorama of views of the current debate concerning innovative approaches to urban analysis and planning
  • Presents papers written by well-known experts, academics and practitioners, from the international scene

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Table of contents (33 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela
      Pages 1-92

  3. The City as a Highly Complex Entity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Cities as Self-Organising Complex Systems

      • Peter M. Allen
      Pages 95-144

    3. A Short Discussion of Alternative Approaches to Modelling Complex Self-Organising Systems

      • Agostino La Bella
      Pages 145-172

    4. The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Organisation

      • Maria Tinacci Mossello
      Pages 173-202

    5. On the Foundations of Social Dynamics: An Efficient Mathematical Statement of a General Framework Underlying a Complex Nonlinear Social Determinism, Incorporating a Supra-Observer and a Suprastructure

      • Dimitrios S. Dendrinos
      Pages 203-223

    6. Urban Development as a Guided Self-Organisation Process

      • Federico M. Butera
      Pages 225-242

    7. Strange Loops, Tangled Hierarchies and Urban Self-Regulation

      • Valter Cavallaro
      Pages 243-266

    8. The Fractal Geometry of Urban Organisation: Beyond the Crisis of ‘Spontaneous Order’

      • Lorenza Lucchi Basili
      Pages 267-295

    9. The Complexity Paradigm in Architecture

      • Francesca Bertuglia
      Pages 297-320

  4. The Sciences of the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 321-321
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    2. Urban Research and Complexity

      • Denise Pumain
      Pages 323-361

    3. Beyond Complexity in Urban Development Studies

      • Roberto Camagni
      Pages 363-385

    4. Model, Plan and Process for the Control of Urban Systems

      • Vittorio Silvestrini
      Pages 387-407

    5. Self-Referential Processes of Spatial Integration

      • Alfredo Mela, Giorgio Preto
      Pages 409-438

    6. Innovation, Agglomeration and Complexity in Urban Systems

      • Dino Martellato
      Pages 439-452

    7. The Sciences of the City: Analytical Tools and Complexity

      • Fiorenzo Ferlaino
      Pages 453-477

    8. Towards a Semiotic Theory of the City and the Territory as a Landscape

      • Carlo Socco
      Pages 479-500

    9. Assessing Uncertainty and Complexity in Urban Systems

      • Silvana Lombardo
      Pages 501-518
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About this book

Recent developments in the field of urban analysis and management are investigated in this book. 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. Of particular interest is the variety of points of view, often contrasting, and the attempt to go beyond the conventional approaches to the analysis, and the planning of the city. While focussing mainly on the European (and in particular Italian) context, the discussion is of general relevance and valuable to anyone concerned with the prospects for the city in the new millenium.

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"The City and Its Sciences" is a bold effort that responds to the critical need for reevaluation of quantitative urban research. It provides a forum for the exchange of views on the complexity paradigm and the models and approaches needed to analyze complex urban systems. I highly recommend the book to regional scientists, urban planners, and urbanists in general." Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 78/2

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecniche per i Processi di Insediamento, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italia

    Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Alfredo Mela

  • Rete dell’Alta Tecnologia, Regione Toscana Firenze, Italia

    Giuliano Bianchi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The City and Its Sciences

  • Editors: Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95929-5

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-95931-8Published: 06 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-95929-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 914

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geography, general

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