Synergetic Cities: Information, Steady State and Phase Transition: Implications to Urban Scaling, Smart Cities and Planning

by Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali

Overview

The book offers a novel approach to the study of the complex dynamics of cities. It is based on (1) Synergetics as a science of cooperation and selforganization, (2) information theory including semantic and pragmatic aspects, and optimization principles, (3) a theory of steady state maintenance, and of (4) phase transition, i.e. qualitative changes of structure or behavior.

From this novel theoretical vantage point, the book addresses particularly three issues that stand at the core of current discourse on cities: Urban Scaling, Smart Cities and City Planning.

An important consequence of “the 21st century as the age of cities”, is that the study of cities currently attracts scientists from a variety of disciplines, ranging from physics, mathematics and computer science, through urban studies, architecture, planning and human geography, to economics, psychology, sociology, public administration and more. The book is thus likely to attract scholars, researchers andstudents of these research domains, of complexity theories of cities, as well as of general complexity theory. In addition, it is directed also to practitioners of urbanism, city planning and urban design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030634568
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/12/2021
Series:	Springer Series in Synergetics
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Cities as hybrid complex systems.- Synergetics: A short reminder.- SIRN, IA and their conjunction (SIRNIA).- Formalism I. Bottom-up approach: From parts to order parameters.- Steady states and the city.- Phase transitions.- Phase transitions and the city.- Smart cities.- Cognitive planning and professional planning.- Conclusions.