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Cities design & evolution

Get this from a library! Cities design & evolution. [Stephen Marshall]

Signs of life : how complexity pervades biology

Get this from a library! Signs of life : how complexity pervades biology. [Ricard V Solé; Brian C Goodwin]

At home in the universe : the search for laws of self-organization and complexity

Get this from a library! At home in the universe : the search for laws of self-organization and complexity. [Stuart A Kauffman] -- This exciting exploration into the nature of life brilliantly weaves together the excitement of intellectual discovery and a fertile mix of insights to give the general reader a fascinating look at ...

How nature works : the science of self-organized criticality

Get this from a library! How nature works : the science of self-organized criticality. [Per Bak]

Cybernetics ; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine

Get this from a library! Cybernetics ; or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine. [Norbert Wiener] -- "Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. This book is widely cited for ...

Synergetics : An Introduction

Get this from a library! Synergetics : An Introduction. [Haken Hermann.]

Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature

Get this from a library! Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature. [Ilya Prigogine; Isabelle Stengers; Alvin Toffler]

On growth and form

Get this from a library! On growth and form. [D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]

Signal and Boundaries: building blocks for complex adaptive systems

This key text by John Holland helps explain how individual building blocks are able to process inputs and self-organize without central control

Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies (2018)

"From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in."

Artificial Life

Artificial life as a tool for biological inquiry; Cooperation and community structure in artificial ecosystems; Extended molecular evolutionary biology: artificial life bridging the gap between chemistry and biology; Visual models of morphogenesis; The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence; Toward synthesizing artificial neural networks that exhibit cooperative intelligence behavior

Adaptive environmental assessment and management (Book, 2004)

[C S Holling; Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement.;]

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.

INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETICS. (Book, 2015)

[W ROSS ASHBY]

Collaborative Planning : Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies

Collaborative planning : shaping places in fragmented societies. [Patsy Healey] (Book, 2006)

The Evolution of Cooperation

The evolution of cooperation. [Robert M Axelrod]

Nonlinear dynamics and chaos : with applications to physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering (Book, 2015) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! Nonlinear dynamics and chaos : with applications to physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering. [Steven Henry Strogatz]

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Chapter 8 of this book deals with the theory of affordances.

The landscape urbanism reader (eBook, 2006) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! The landscape urbanism reader. [Charles Waldheim;]

Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals

Get this from a library! Cities and complexity : understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals. [Michael Batty] -- Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and ...

Intensive science and virtual philosophy (eBook, 2002) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! Intensive science and virtual philosophy. [Manuel De Landa] -- Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy cuts to the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and of todayÆs science wars. At the start of the 21st Century, Deleuze is now regarded as the most ...

Urban complexity and spatial strategies : towards a relational planning for our times (eBook, 2007) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! Urban complexity and spatial strategies : towards a relational planning for our times. [Patsy Healey]

Global complexity (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]

John Urry relates global intensities to CAS features.

Tactical urbanism : short-term action for long-term change (eBook, 2015) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! Tactical urbanism : short-term action for long-term change. [Mike Lydon; Anthony Garcia] -- In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, ...