Complexity and Planning

Systems, Assemblages and Simulations

Gert de Roo, Jean Hillier, Professor Joris van Wezemael , Professor Gert de Roo

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Routledge
28 July 2012

Urban communities; Social welfare & social services; Central government policies; Urban & municipal planning

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.

By: Gert de Roo, Jean Hillier
Edited by: Professor Joris van Wezemael
Series edited by: Professor Gert de Roo, Professor Jean Hillier
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9781409403470
ISBN 10: 1409403475
Pages: 462
Publication Date: 28 July 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Gert de Roo, Jean Hillier, Joris Van Wezemael, Karen S. Christensen, Juval Portugali, Jan Rotmans, Derk Loorbach, Rene Kemp, Lasse Gerrits, Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Sibout Nooteboom, Cathy Wilkinson, David Byrne, Valeria Monno, Peter Trummer, Jurian Edelenbos Oswald Devisch, Andrew Crooks, Paul M. Torrenns.

Reviews for Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations

'Complexity theory is the wave of the future in planning thought. It helps us to see how things really work in cities and regions and provides a basis for rethinking the practice of planning for the 21st century. This collection of articles, each of which explores complexity in planning from a different perspective, advances the journey toward more insightful theory and more effective practice.' Judith Innes, University of California, Berkeley, USA, co-author of Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for the 21st Century 'Complex adaptive systems are the stuff of life and culture. But it is a long way from such general statements to how things play out on the ground. This book provides the best guide yet to planning for that complexity.' Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick, UK 'Important reading for anyone interested in complexity theory, planning, and city systems.' Journal of Regional Science