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Title Understanding complex urban systems : multidisciplinary approaches to modeling / Christian Walloth, Jens Martin Gurr, J. Alexander Schmidt, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Springer complexity
Understanding complex systems
Springer complexity.
Understanding complex systems.
Contents From the Contents: Introduction: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Complex Urban Systems -- Multi-method Modeling and Simulation Supporting Urban Planning -- Understanding Effects of Complexity in Cities During Disasters -- Towards Evolutionary Economic Analysis of Sustainable Urban Real Estate: -- Organized and Disorganized Complexities and Socio-Economic Implications in the Northern Ruhr Area
Summary Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood let alone managed by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But while there has recently been significant progress in broadening and refining the methodologies for the quantitative modeling of complex urban systems, in deepening the theoretical understanding of cities as complex systems, or in illuminating the implications for urban planning, there is still a lack of well-founded conceptual thinking on the methodological foundations and the strategies of modeling urban complexity across the disciplines. Bringing together experts from the fields of urban and spatial planning, ecology, urban geography, real estate analysis, organizational cybernetics, stochastic optimization, and literary studies, as well as specialists in various systems approaches and in transdisciplinary methodologies of urban analysis, the volume seeks to advance the discussion on multidisciplinary approaches to urban modeling. While engaging with the state of the art in their respective fields, the contributions are specifically written for both experts from a broad range of disciplines as well as for urban practitioners who feel the need for new approaches given the uncertainty of current developments
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cities and towns -- Mathematical models
Physique.
Astronomie.
Cities and towns -- Mathematical models
Form Electronic book
Author Walloth, Christian, editor
Gurr, Jens Martin, editor
Schmidt, J. Alexander, 1949- editor.
ISBN 9783319029962
3319029967