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" The City and Its Sciences "
edited by Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela.
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BL
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734613
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b554446
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edited by Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela.
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The City and Its Sciences\ edited by Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, Alfredo Mela.
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Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 1998
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1(XX, 914 Seiten 123 Illustrationen)
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3642959296
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: 3642959318
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: 9783642959295
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: 9783642959318
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The City as a Highly Complex Entity: Cities as Self-Organizing Complex Systems; A Short Discussion of Alternative Approaches to Modelling Complex Self-Organizing Systems; The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Organisation; On the Foundations of Social Dynamics: An Efficient Mathematical Statement of a General Framework Underlying a Complex Nonlinear Social Determinism: A Supra-Observer and a Suprastructure; Urban Development as a Guided Self-Organisation Process; Strange Loops, Tangled Hierarchies and Urban Self-Regulation; The Fractal Geometry of Urban Organisation: Beyond the Crisis of 'Spontaneous Order'; The Complexity Paradigm in Architecture.- The Sciences of the City: Urban Research and Complexity; Beyond Complexity in Urban Development Studies; Model, Plan and Process for the Control of Urban Systems; Self-Referential Processes of Spatial Integration; Innovation, Agglomeration and Complexity in Urban Systems; The Sciences of the City: Analytical Tools and Complexity; Towards a Semiotic Theory of the City and the Territory as a Landscape; Assessing Uncertainty and Complexity in Urban Systems.- The Planning of the City: The Nexus between Analysis and Design: A Case Study of an Uneasy Relationship; Order and Change, Rule and Strategy; Selected Issues of Urban Planning; New Conditions and Requirements for Urban Government; Town Planning and Fluctuations of Rules Covering Time and Space; China in Search of a New Planning Paradigm; The Paradoxical Nature of Territorial Change: Science Parks and the Case of Trieste; Strategic Planning in Italy and the New Local Authority Act: The Master Plan for the City of Venice; The Art of the Science of the City.- The Methodologies of the Urban Sciences: Design and Use of Information Systems for a Sustainable Complex City; An Information System for Planning Mobility and Transport in the Metropolis: Proposed Methodology for Setting up an Integrated Tool for DecisionSupport; Urban Information Systems and Sustainable Urban Development; Towards the Complex City: Approaches and Experiments in Spatial Economics; Mathematical Models for Simulating Urban Mobility Systems: State of the Art and Lines of Development; A New Perspective for Methodologies in Spatial and Urban Analysis; Towards an Environmentally Compatible Mobility in the Region of Stuttgart.
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It is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the subject drawn from a long-term project and seminar, held in Italy, to review the state of the art and speculate on the future influence on the "sciences of the city" of the complexity concept.
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Economics.
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Geography.
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Regional planning.
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HT166.E358 1998
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Alfredo Mela
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Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia
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Giuliano Bianchi
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