The City and Its Sciences

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Introduction....Pages 1-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Cities as Self-Organising Complex Systems....Pages 95-144
A Short Discussion of Alternative Approaches to Modelling Complex Self-Organising Systems....Pages 145-172
The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Organisation....Pages 173-202
On the Foundations of Social Dynamics: An Efficient Mathematical Statement of a General Framework Underlying a Complex Nonlinear Social Determinism, Incorporating a Supra-Observer and a Suprastructure....Pages 203-223
Urban Development as a Guided Self-Organisation Process....Pages 225-242
Strange Loops, Tangled Hierarchies and Urban Self-Regulation....Pages 243-266
The Fractal Geometry of Urban Organisation: Beyond the Crisis of ‘Spontaneous Order’....Pages 267-295
The Complexity Paradigm in Architecture....Pages 297-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Urban Research and Complexity....Pages 323-361
Beyond Complexity in Urban Development Studies....Pages 363-385
Model, Plan and Process for the Control of Urban Systems....Pages 387-407
Self-Referential Processes of Spatial Integration....Pages 409-438
Innovation, Agglomeration and Complexity in Urban Systems....Pages 439-452
The Sciences of the City: Analytical Tools and Complexity....Pages 453-477
Towards a Semiotic Theory of the City and the Territory as a Landscape....Pages 479-500
Assessing Uncertainty and Complexity in Urban Systems....Pages 501-518
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
The Nexus Between Analysis and Design: A Case Study of an Uneasy Relationship....Pages 521-558
Order and Change, Rule and Strategy....Pages 559-576
Selected Issues of Urban Planning....Pages 577-595
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
New Conditions and Requirements for Urban Government....Pages 597-610
Town Planning and Fluctuations of Rules Covering Time and Space....Pages 611-633
China in Search of a New Planning Paradigm....Pages 635-649
The Paradoxical Nature of Territorial Change: Science Parks and the Case of Trieste....Pages 651-668
Strategic Planning in Italy and the New Local Authority Act: The Master Plan for the City of Venice....Pages 669-684
The Art of the Science of the City....Pages 685-703
Front Matter....Pages 705-705
Design and Use of Information Systems for a Sustainable Complex City....Pages 707-746
An Information System for Planning Mobility and Transport in the Metropolis: Proposed Methodology for Setting Up an Integrated Tool for Decision Support....Pages 747-769
Urban Information Systems and Sustainable Urban Development....Pages 771-796
Towards the Complex City: Approaches and Experiments in Spatial Economics....Pages 797-824
Mathematical Models for Simulating Urban Mobility Systems: State of the Art and Lines of Development....Pages 825-850
A New Perspective for Methodologies in Spatial and Urban Analysis....Pages 851-871
Towards an Environmentally Compatible Mobility in the Region of Stuttgart....Pages 873-892
Back Matter....Pages 893-914