View No. 10 (2018): Complex Adaptive Systems and Urban Morphogenesis
No. 10 (2018)
Complex Adaptive Systems and Urban Morphogenesis

Sharon Wohl

238 pages

ISBN 978-94-6366-046-4

Published: 2018-06-13

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  • Complex Adaptive Systems and Urban Morphogenesis Analyzing and designing urban fabric informed by CAS dynamics

    Sharon Wohl
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    This thesis looks at how cities operate as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). It focuses on how certain characteristics of urban form can support an urban environment's capacity to self-organize, enabling emergent features to appear that, while unplanned, remain highly functional. The research is predicated on the notion that CAS processes operate across diverse domains: that they are ‘generalized' or ‘universal'. The goal of the dissertation is then to determine how such generalized...