This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different 'parts' (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving 'whole'.
This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different 'parts' (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving 'whole'.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Francesca Froy is Lecturer on Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Kellogg College. She has honorary positions at the Bartlett Schools of Planning and Architecture where she previously researched and taught urban morphology and local economic development. She is also an associate working on the spatial dimensions of sustainable economies at the consultancy firm Space Syntax. Francesca was a senior policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2005 to 2015, where she coordinated international reviews of policies to support local economic development. Before that, while based in Brussels, she evaluated urban and regional European policies. Her articles can be found in peer-reviewed academic journals including the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society; Local Economy; the Oxford Review of Economic Policy; European Planning Studies; the Journal of Urban Design; and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures and maps List of boxes Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE Chapter 1: Why focus on urban complexity? Chapter 2: Theories of complexity Chapter 3: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban economies Chapter 4: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban space Chapter 5: Bringing together configurational analysis of economies and space PART TWO Chapter 6: How local economies evolve and branch Chapter 7: How spatial complexity evolves and supports branching economies Chapter 8: Waterproofing: a case study Chapter 9: The destruction of urban complexity PART THREE Chapter 10: Cities as systems of systems: where nature fits in Chapter 11: Rebuilding urban complexity: how can policy makers intervene? Index
List of figures and maps List of boxes Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE Chapter 1: Why focus on urban complexity? Chapter 2: Theories of complexity Chapter 3: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban economies Chapter 4: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban space Chapter 5: Bringing together configurational analysis of economies and space PART TWO Chapter 6: How local economies evolve and branch Chapter 7: How spatial complexity evolves and supports branching economies Chapter 8: Waterproofing: a case study Chapter 9: The destruction of urban complexity PART THREE Chapter 10: Cities as systems of systems: where nature fits in Chapter 11: Rebuilding urban complexity: how can policy makers intervene? Index
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