Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. These issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning. This book provides a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. Editor(s): Wezemael, Professor Joris van. Series Editor(s): Roo, Professor Gert de; Hillier, Professor Jean; Wezemael, Professor Joris van. Series: New Directions in Planning Theroy. Num Pages: 462 pages, Includes 23 b&w illustrations and 3 maps. BIC Classification: JFSG; JKS; JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 34. Weight in Grams: 978. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations (New Directions in Planning Theory)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1409403475
ISBN 13: 9781409403470
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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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

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