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Action, Property and Beauty: Planning with and for Emergent Urban Complexity book cover

1st Edition

Action, Property and Beauty Planning with and for Emergent Urban Complexity

By Stefano Cozzolino, Stefano Moroni Copyright 2025
142 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by shedding new light on the topics of emergence, complexity, and self-organisation and showing their interconnectedness with other concepts, such as property and beauty, which are usually considered separately. It contributes to the discussion by interpreting and explaining the nature of... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

Analytical Index

Chapter 1 Introduction: The challenge of urban emergence and complexity

Chapter 2 Action

Chapter 3 Self-organisation

Chapter 4 Property

Chapter 5 Adaptability

Chapter 6 Beauty

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Accepting the challenge in planning theory and practice

Chapter 8 Annex: A case study

Index

Biography

Stefano Cozzolino is Senior Researcher at ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (Dortmund) and Lecturer at RWTH University (Aachen). His main research interest focuses on the interplay between planning/design and spontaneous social-spatial configurations. He is the coordinator of the AESOP thematic group on Ethics, Values and Planning.

Stefano Moroni is Professor of Planning at Milan Polytechnic University (Italy). He is member of the editorial board of the journal "Planning Theory" and founder of the research network "NormaCtivity: Research Network on Human and Non-Human Normactivity”. His main research interests are: planning theory; applied ethics; theory and philosophy of the law.

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