Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations (New Directions in Planning Theory) - Hardcover

Roo, Gert De; Hillier, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409403475 ISBN 13: 9781409403470

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future development, they question how complexity, complex systems and complexity theories might prove useful with regard to spatial planning and the physical environment. This book provides a readable overview, presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple, relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of, and facilitate working with, contingencies of place, time and the various participants' behaviours. In doing so, it should contribute to a better understanding of processes with regard to our physical and social worlds.

About this title

About the Author

Gert De Roo, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Jean Hillier, Associate Dean, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, Editor Planning Theory, RMIT University, Australia and Joris Van Wezemael, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409403475
• ISBN 13: 9781409403470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 462