About the Book
Deepening the scientific debate on planning and complexity, this Handbook combines theoretical discussion about planning and governance with modelling complex behaviour in space and place. Linking planning and complexity as a way of understanding dynamic change and non-linear development within cities, it presents critical new insights on complex urban behaviour.
Building on the notion that cities have fractal-like structures, chapters look at their behaviour as complex adaptive systems, with co-evolving trajectories and transformative forces. The Handbook offers new perspectives, concepts, methods and tools for understanding the inter-relations between complexity and planning, including: adaptive planning, non-linear types of rationality, governance and decision-making, and different methods of experimental learning.
Planning, complexity, urban studies and social geography scholars will appreciate the examples of complex urban behaviour and urban planning throughout the Handbook. This will also be an important read for modellers in urban development, urban policy makers and spatial planners.
Contributors include: E.R. Alexander, Y. Asami, M. Batty, R. Beunen, B. Boonstra, S.D. Campbell, S. Cozzolino, M. Duineveld, S. Eräranta, N. Frantzeskaki, T. Ishikawa, W. Jager, D. Loorbach, S. Moroni, C. Perrone, J. Portugali, W. Rauws, N.A. Salingaros, K. Van Assche, A. van Nes, S. Verweij, T. Von Wirth, M. Zellner,
Table of Contents:
Contents:
Preface
1. Introducing Planning and Complexity
Gert de Roo
2. Complexity, Institutions and Institutional Design
Ernest R. Alexander
3. A Multi-level Rationality Model for Planning Behaviour
Gert de Roo & Camilla Perrone
4. Post-contingency: considering Complexity as a Matter of Choice
Christian Zuidema
5. Adaptive Planning and the Capacity to Perform in Moments of Change
Gert de Roo, Ward Rauws and Christian Zuidema
6. Rationalities for Adaptive Planning to address Uncertainties
Gert de Roo, Ward Rauws and Christian Zuidema
7. Strategy in Complexity: the Shaping of Communities and Environments
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld
8. Social Complexities in Collaborative Planning Processes
Susa Eräranta
9. Conditions of Actions in Complex Social-Spatial Systems
Stefano Moroni and Stefano Cozzolino
10. Information Adaptation as the Link between Cognitive Planning and Professional Planning
Juval Portugali
11. Self-organization and Spatial Planning in the Face of the European Refugee Crisis
Beitske Boonstra
12. Urban Living Labs as Inter-boundary Spaces for Sustainability Transitions?
Timo Von Wirth, Niki Frantzeskaki and Dirk Loorbach
13. Planning with(in) Complexity: Pathways to Extend Planning with Complex Systems Modelling
Moira Zellner and Scott D. Campbell
14. Simplification and Spatial Thinking in the Modeling and Planning of Complex Urban Environments
Toru Ishikawa and Yashushi Asami
15. Complexity in Design: Optimal Location through Spatial Averaging
Michael Batty
16. A Multiscale Approach in Regional and Urban Planning Strategies
Claudia Yamu and Akkelies van Nes
17. Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Analyzing Spatial Planning Processes
Stefan Verweij and Christian Zuidema
18. Planning, Complexity, and Welcoming Spaces: The Case of Campus Design
Nikos A. Salingaros
19. Simulating Community Dynamics for Transitional Urban Planning Processes
Wander Jager and Claudia Yamu
Index
About the Author :
Edited by Gert de Roo, Professor in Spatial Planning, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Claudia Yamu, Department of Built Environment, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and Christian Zuidema, Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Review :
'The editors have brought together leading and upcoming experts in complexity and planning to create this 'state of the art' volume. It is wide ranging, thought provoking and comprehensive, covering the latest theoretical debates in complexity and planning, international and national applications, and even localised planning issues. It is a 'must read' for anyone working in planning and complexity and will undoubtedly be a benchmark for the next wave of works on complexity and planning and policy-making in general.'
--Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK'This excellent collection of chapters makes a direct contribution to understanding how planning interventions can interact with and rise above the self-organising forces of complexity and uncertainty. The threads of governance, rationality, modelling, communication, contextualisation and adaptability are interwoven across different chapters. By breaking down the divide between technical and political approaches, between theory and methods, the book is charged with positive energy and inspirational ideas to pursue more discursive and non-linear thinking in spatial planning.'
--Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester, UK
'This volume critically engages complexity thinking to identify possibilities for the reinvention of spatial planning as a meshwork of complementary mutual interrelations, purposeful interventions and subjective interactions. The book is an important source for scholars interested in pushing forward the frontiers of theoretical reasoning and practical modelling in the dynamic, non-linear world in which we live.'
--Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Australia
