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- Provides an alternative methodology for observing and analyzing the city
- Combines a strong historical and anthropological background, with some knowledge coming from different scientific fields
- Presents numerous pictures, maps, schemes, and diagrams that support a faster and easier understanding
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base of complex systems, this book tries to understand how specific qualities emerge and evolve from this behavior. For this, the book discusses new ways of looking at and understanding cities by applying holistic methods and approaches based on the conceptual grounds of quantum, fractal, and complexity theories. The book highlights the fact that the information on how to transform and build a city is contained within the city itself. In this regard, some methodological steps to unpack complexities and translate the essential qualities of space into potential generators for city design and planning are provided.
The book urges courageous experimentation and proposes a methodology where the computational nature of urban phenomena goes along with historic anthropological ideas, thus emphasizing the characteristics of a specific reality in a model. They do not exclude each other; in fact, they are part of the unbroken web of wholeness. Importantly, the proposed methodology supports gradual and natural coevolution process in the city through combining planned and unplanned actions and the involving multiplicity of actors, impacting on Urban Planning and Design Practice.
Authors and Affiliations
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Polis University, Tirana, Albania
Sotir Dhamo
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Emergent Urbanism
Book Subtitle: The Case of Tirana, Albania
Authors: Sotir Dhamo
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82731-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82730-4Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82733-5Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82731-1Published: 31 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 262
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Economics, Urban History