Complexity and planning : systems assemblages and simulations 6 Spatial Planning Complexity and a World Out of Equilibrium: Outline of a Non linear Approach to Planning7 Complexity and Transition Management; 8 Coevolutionary Planning Processes; 9 Climate Adaptation in Complex Governance Systems: Governance Systems between Inertia and Adaptability; 10 Beyond BlueprintsComplexity Theory as a Prospective Influence for Metropolitan Governance; 11 Considering Complex Systems: The Implications of the Complexity Frame of Reference for Planning; Part III: Assemblage and a Relational Attitude to Planning 12 A Different View of Relational Complexity. Imagining Places through the Deleuzean Social Cartography13 On the Emergence of Agency in Participatory Strategic Planning; 14 Population Thinking in Architecture; 15 Coevolving Adaptive and Power Networks: Collective Leadership for Effective Planning; Part IV: Simulating in between the Real and the Ideal; 16 The Metaverse as Lab to Experiment with Problems of Organized Complexity; 17 The Use of Agent Based Modeling for Studying the Social and Physical Environment of Cities; 18 Building Mega Models for Megacities; Index This book provides a readable overview presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of and facilitate working with contingencies of place time and participants behaviours Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Complexity and Spatial Planning: Introducing Systems Assemblages and Simulations; Part I: Theoretical Reflections Bridging Complexity and Planning; 2 Baroque Complexity: If Things were Simple Word Would Have Gotten Round; 4 Transformative Practice as an Exploration of Possibility Spaces; Part II: Complex Systems and Planning in between the Real and the Relative; 5 Complexity Theories of Cities: First Second or Third Culture of Planning