1st Edition
Urban Complexity and Planning Theories and Computer Simulations
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban development process. This 'bottom up' approach to urban modeling not only transforms our... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Michael Batty; Foreword, Lewis D. Hopkins; Preface; From organized anarchy to controlled structure: effects of planning on the garbage-can decision processes; Effects of planning on the garbage-can decision processes: a reformulation and extension; A spatial garbage-can model; An agent-based approach to comparing institutional and spatial changes in the self-organizing city; On traction rules of complex structures in one-dimensional cellular automata: some implications for urban change; Applying cellular automata to simulate spatial game interactions to investigate effects of planning; Planning for city safety and creativity: two metaphors; Emergent macro-structures of path-dependent location adoptions processes of firms; The formation of urban settlement systems: computer experiments and mathematical proofs of the increasing-returns approach to power law; Power law distribution of human settlements: an explanation based on increasing returns; A preliminary exploration on self-organized criticality of urban complex spatial systems; Planning in complex spatial and temporal systems: a simulation framework; Decision network: a planning tool for making multiple, linked decisions; Effectiveness of plans in the face of complexity; Index.
Biography
Dr Shih-Kung Lai is a lecturer in Real Estate and Built Environment at the National Taipei University, Taiwan, R. O. C. and Haoying Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, China.
"While books about ‘complexity science and cities’ and ‘complexity science and planning’ already exist, in-depth computer simulations and new explanatory concepts must be developed in the future to apply the finding of this research to planning practices. In fact, Shih-Kung Lai and Haoying Han have solved this issue by bringing sophisticated behavioural theories from spatial economics, management science and urban planning to the modern computational simulation laboratory.' - Yutian Liang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
