Self-Organization and the City
By: by Juval Portugali
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics; Springer Series in Synergetics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9783642084812; 9783662040997
Subjects: Geography; Population; Physics; Regional planning
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 models (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.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Cities as Concepts; title: Prototype Urbanisms; title: Self-Organzing Cities; title: Free Agents in a Cellular Space; title: City: The Greens and the Blues; title: International Migration and the Internal Structure of Cities; title: Spatial Cognitive Dissonance and Socio-Spatial Emergence in a Self-Organizing City; title: Individuals' Cultural Code and Residential Self-Organization in the City; title: From CA- to GIS-City; title: Groups Internal Complexity and Socio-Spatial Segregation in a Self-Organizing City; title: Self-Organization and City Planning; title: Artificial Planning Experience; title: Synergetic Cities I: The Pattern Recognition Approach; title: Synergetic Cities II: Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Mapping and Decision-Making; title: Self-Organization and Urban Revolutions.