Overview
- Introduction to the concept of Synergetic Cities which is a view on cities as complex systems from the perspective of Hermann Haken’s theory of Synergetics
- Discusses implications to three issues that stand at the core of current discourse on complexity theories of cities (CTC): urban scaling, smart cities and city planning
- Focused on information, steady state and phase transitions of synergetic cities
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics (SSSYN)
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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.
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Book Title: Synergetic Cities: Information, Steady State and Phase Transition
Book Subtitle: Implications to Urban Scaling, Smart Cities and Planning
Authors: Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali
Series Title: Springer Series in Synergetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63457-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63456-8Published: 13 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63459-9Published: 13 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63457-5Published: 12 February 2021
Series ISSN: 0172-7389
Series E-ISSN: 2198-333X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Complexity, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory