Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Walloth, Christian (Editor), Gurr, Jens Martin (Editor), Schmidt, J. Alexander (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Statistical physics.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Nonlinear Dynamics.

Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood – let alone ‘managed’ – by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But while there has recently been significant pro...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Introduction: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Complex Urban Systems
• Multi-method Modeling and Simulation Supporting Urban Planning
• Understanding Effects of Complexity in Cities During Disasters
• Towards Evolutionary Economic Analysis of Sustainable Urban Real Estate:
• Organized and Disorganized Complexities and Socio-Economic Implications in the Northern Ruhr Area.