Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Conceptualizing the Urban System as a System of Flows
Abstract With increasing part of humanity living in cities and with the complexification of urban issues, there is a growing need of the theory of the urban. My question is, how to put the various strands of research on urban matters together. I suppose that a theory of complex self-referential systems is well equipped for this task. Therefore, I respecified Luhmann’s concepts in the urban realm. As a result, I suggest a theory of self-referential systems of flows. Such systems reduce the complexity that is resulting from spatial dispersal of people and social systems. What emerges as constraints of systems of flows are channels, accumulations and centers, that, when solidified, may become cities.
Conceptualizing the Urban System as a System of Flows
Abstract With increasing part of humanity living in cities and with the complexification of urban issues, there is a growing need of the theory of the urban. My question is, how to put the various strands of research on urban matters together. I suppose that a theory of complex self-referential systems is well equipped for this task. Therefore, I respecified Luhmann’s concepts in the urban realm. As a result, I suggest a theory of self-referential systems of flows. Such systems reduce the complexity that is resulting from spatial dispersal of people and social systems. What emerges as constraints of systems of flows are channels, accumulations and centers, that, when solidified, may become cities.
Conceptualizing the Urban System as a System of Flows
Holubec, Pavel (Autor:in)
1st ed. 2016
01.01.2016
15 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Systems theory , Self-referential , Complexity , Differentiation , Flow , City , Urban , Center , Emergence , System of flows , Flow theory of cities , Çatalhöyük Engineering , Complexity , Nonlinear Dynamics , Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) , Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models , Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery