Urban complexity and planning / by Shih-Kung Lai

Originally published 2014 by Ashgate Pub.

ontents: List of tables -- List of figures -- Foreword / by Michael Batty -- Foreword / by Lew Hopkins -- Foreword / by Chris Webster -- Preface -- From organized anarchy to controlled structure : effects of planning on the garbage-can decision processes -- Effects of planning on the garbage-can decision processes : a reformulation and extension -- A spatial garbage can model -- An agent-based approach to comparing institutional and spatial changes in the self-organizing city -- On traction rules of complex structures in one-dimensional cellular automata: some implications for urban change -- Applying cellular automata to simulate spatial game interactions to investigate effects of planning -- Planning for city safety and creativity : two metaphors -- Emergent macro-structures of path-dependent location adoptions processes of firms -- The formation of urban settlement systems: computer experiments and mathematical proofs of the increasing returns approach to power law -- Power law distribution of human settlements : an explanation based on increasing returns -- A preliminary exploration on self-organized criticality of urban spatial complex systems -- Planning in complex spatial and temporal systems : a simulation framework -- Decision network : a planning tool for making multiple, linked decisions -- Effectiveness of plans in the face of complexity.