NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-433).

Introduction / Juval Portugali -- Part I. Complexity theories and complexity theories of cities: an overview -- Complexity and complexity theories: do these concepts make sense? / Hermann Haken -- The origins of complexity theory in cities and planning / Michael Batty and Stephen Marshall -- Complexity theories of cities: achievements, criticism and potentials / Juval Portugali -- Part II. Aspects of cities as complex systems : Cities: the visible expression of co-evolving complexity / Peter M. Allen -- Urban systems dynamics: urban growth and scaling laws: the question of ergodicity / Denise Pumain -- Meaning and material: phenomenology, complexity, science and 'adjacent possible' cities / Stephen Read -- The genetic code for cities: is it simpler than we think? / Bill Hillier -- Cities: systems of systems of systems / Jeffrey Johnson -- On the simplicity of complexity theory in artificial environments / Harry Timmermans -- Part III. Complexity theories of cities: implications to urban planning and design : Planning, design and the complexity of cities / Stephen Marshall -- Positioning planning in the world of order, chaos and complexity: on perspectives, behaviour and interventions in a non-linear environment / Gert de Roo and Ward S. Rauws -- Complexity theories of cities: implications to urban planning / Juval Portugali -- Urbanism as computation / Nikos A. Salingaros -- Self-organizing urban transportation systems / Carlos Gershenson -- Simple rules: emerging order?: a designer's curiosity abut complexity theories / Dirk Sijmons -- A rationalized delta / Hans Meyer -- A complexity theoretic view of cities as artefacts of design / Theodore Zamenopoulos and Katerina Alexiou -- A computational intelligence approach to alleviate complexity issues in design / Michael S. Bittermann, I. Sevil Sariyildiz and Özer Ciftcioglu -- The responsive city design game / Ekim Tan and Juval Portugali -- A SIRN view on urban design: the case of Almere Hout / Egbert Stolk and Juval Portugali.