Self-Organization and the City
Contributors: H. Haken (Foreword); I. Benenson (Assistant); I. Omer (Assistant); N. Alfasi (Assistant)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783540654834
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Self-organizing systems; Earth Sciences - Geography; Urban Planning; Sociology - Urban; Political Science; Sociology; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Politics/International Relations; Physics; Cellular modeling; Computer Science; Geography; Science / Physics; Urban Architecture; Cities and towns; City planning
First sentence: Cities have been with us for over 5000 years.
Description: "This book integrates the theories of complex self-organizing systems with the rich body of discourse and literature developed in what might be called "social theory of cities and urbanism". This is done in several ways: First, by an explicit comparative discussion of the two theoretical bodies in conjunction with some classical issues such as the nature of cities, the urban process, urban and regional planning, decision making, and the urban revolution (or rather revolutions).

Second, by developing a new family of heuristic models and using them to study the issue of socio-cultural spatial segregation in cities. We term these models FACS model (Free Agents in a Cellular Space). Third, by developing a synergetic/pattern recognition theory of cities and of decision-making in the context of city planning."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Springer Series in Synergetics