Self-Organization and the City

Juval Portugali (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVII, 352 Seiten

2010 | 1. Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-08481-2 (ISBN)

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Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago. How to deal with these partly fascinating, partly frightening creatures of mankind, both practically and intellectually, concerns all of us and, in particular, presents areal challenge to city planners. Each historical epoch has had its own par ticular attitudes associated with the "Zeitgeist". Accordingly, the planning and steering of cities were based on quite different criteria. But in spite of these differences, the concept of planning and steering was, and still is, the cornerstone of our dealing with cities. Nevertheless, the planner's dilemma is becoming more and more visible: cities and megacities seem to be un plannable. In this book, Juval Portugali intro duces a new idea: Cities are self organizing systems. To substantiate his revolutionary concept, he uses several interlinked methods. On the one hand, and to my own delight, he employs in his arguments theoretical tools developed in the interdisciplinary field of synergetics. On the other hand, jointly with his co-workers, he has performed detailed model calculations on cellular nets. It has been a great pleasure and a wonderful experience for me to discuss these concepts with Juval Portugali over a number of years. I was repeatedly and deeply impressed by the way he established profound and often surprising links to other fields of science.

I On Cities and Urbanism.- 1. Cities as Concepts.- 2. Prototype Urbanisms.- 3. Self-Organizing Cities.- II City Games.- 4. Free Agents in a Cellular Space.- 5. City: The Greens and the Blues.- 6. International Migration and the Internal Structure of Cities.- 7. Spatial Cognitive Dissonance and Socio-spatial Emergence in a Self-Organizing City.- 8. Individuals' Cultural Code and Residential Self-Organization in the City.- 9. From CA- to GIS-City.- 10. Internal Complexity and Socio-spatial Segregation of Groups in a Self-Organizing City.- III Self-Organizing Planning.- 11. Planning the Unplannable: Self-Organization and City Planning.- 12. Artificial Planning Experience.- IV Synergetic Cities.- 13. Synergetic Cities I: The Pattern Recognition Approach.- 14. Synergetic Cities II: Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Mapping and Decision-Making.- V Self-Organization and Urban Revolutions.- 15. Self-Organization and Urban Revolutions.- Concluding Notes: Self-Organizing Cities at the Gate of the 21st Century.

From the reviews
"The author and his associates (...) are to be congratulated on such a sustained and convincing tour de force. This book succintly and succesfully discusses urban process and urban revolution, the utility of heuristic models in studying social, economic, and cultural segregation in cities, and the development of synergetic theories of cities and city planning. (...) it deserves the very widest readership in urban planning and beyond." (Environment and Planning B, 2001)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Springer Series in Synergetics
Mitarbeit	Assistent: I. Benenson, I. Omer, N. Alfasi
Vorwort	H. Haken
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 352 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	592 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
Schlagworte	Cellular modeling • Computer Science • Geography • Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning • Segregation • Sociology • Urban Architecture
ISBN-10	3-642-08481-8 / 3642084818
ISBN-13	978-3-642-08481-2 / 9783642084812
Zustand	Neuware