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Complexity & Urbanism

How different urban discourses integrate complexity in their approaches

'Complexity of cities' has become a recognized field of research, but there is no unified way of thinking about how to manage, model, or design for urban complexity. The pages of this site devoted to complexity and urbanism aim to clarify the breadth of urban inquiry engaging complexity, and how each particular discourse embraces key principles and concepts from complexity sciences in different ways.

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Urban Modeling

Cellular Automata & Agent-Based Models offer city simulations whose behaviors we learn from. What are the strengths & weaknesses of this mode of engaging urban complexity?

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 Urban Informalities

Many cities around the world self-build without top-down control. What do these processes have in common with complexity?

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 Urban Datascapes

Increasingly, data is guiding how cities are built and managed. 'Datascapes' are both derived from our actions but then can also steer them. How do humans and data interact in complex ways?

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 Tactical Urbanism

Tactical interventions are light, quick and cheap - but if deployed using a complexity lens, could they be a generative learning tool that helps make our cities more fit?

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 Resilient Urbanism

How can our cities adapt and evolve in the face of change? Can complexity theory help us provide our cities with more adaptive capacity to respond to uncertain circumstances?

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 Relational Geography

If geography is not composed of places, but rather places are the result of relations, then how can an understanding of complex flows and network dynamics help us unravel the nature of place?

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 Parametric Urbanism

New ways of modeling the physical shape of cities allows us to shape-shift at the touch of a keystroke.  Can this ability to generate a multiplicity of possible future urbanities help make better cities?

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 Landscape Urbanism

Landscape Urbanists are interested in adaptation, processes, and flows: with their work often drawing from the lexicon of complexity sciences.

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 Incremental Urbanism

Cities traditionally evolved over time,  shifting to meet user needs. How might complexity theory help us  emulate such processes to generate 'fit' cities?

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 Evolutionary Geography

Across the globe we find spatial clusters of similar economic activity. How does complexity help us understand the path-dependent emergence of these economic clusters?

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 Communicative Planning

Communicative planning  broadens the scope of voices engaged in planning processes. How does complexity help  us understand the productive capacity of these diverse agents?

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 Assemblage Geography

Might the world we live in be made up of contingent, emergent 'assemblages'? If so, how might complexity theory help us understand such assemblages?

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Many cities around the world self-build without top-down control. What do these processes have in common with complexity?

Cities around the world are growing without the capacity for top-down control. Informal urbanism is an example of bottom-up processes that shape the city. Can these processes be harnessed in ways that make them more effective and productive?

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