A PLANNERS ENCOUNTER WITH COMPLEXITY
New Directions in Planning Theory
Series Editors
Professor Gert de Roo, Department of Planning and Environment
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Professor Jean Hillier, Global Urban Yesearch Unit (GURU),
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK
Dr Joris Van Wezemael, Geography Unit, Department of Geosciences,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Ashgates series, New Directions in Planning Theory, develops and disseminates theories and conceptual understandings of spatial and physical planning which address such challenges as uncertainty, diversity and incommensurability.
Planning theories range across a wide spectrum, from questions of explanation and understanding, to normative or predictive questions of how planners should act and what future places should look like.
These theories include procedural theories of planning. While these have traditionally been dominated by ideas about rationality, in addition to this, the series opens up to other perspectives and also welcomes theoretical contributions on substantive aspects of planning.
Other theories to be included in the series may be concerned with questions of epistemology or ontology; with issues of knowledge, power, politics, subjectivation; with social and/or environmental justice; with issues of morals and ethics.
Planning theories have been, and continue to be, influenced by other intellectual fields, which often imbue planning theories with awareness of and sensitivity to the multiple dimensions of planning practices. The series editors particularly encourage inter- and trans-disciplinary ideas and conceptualisations.
A Planners Encounter with Complexity
Edited by
GERT DE ROO
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
ELISABETE A. SILVA
University of Cambridge, UK
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A planners encounter with complexity. -- (New directions
in planning theory)
1. City planning--Environmental aspects. 2. City
planning--Philosophy.
I. Series II. Roo, Gert de. III. Silva, Elisabete A.
307.1'2'01-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roo, Gert de.
A planners encounter with complexity / by Gert de Roo and Elisabete A. Silva.
p. cm. -- (New directions in planning theory)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0265-7 (hardback)
1. City planning. 2. Public spaces--Planning. I. Silva, Elisabete A. II. Title.
HT165.5.R66 2010
307.1'216--dc22
2010009588
ISBN 9781409402657 (hbk)
Contents
Gert de Roo
Gert de Roo
Jens-Peter Grunau and Walter L. Schnwandt
Kristina L. Nilsson
Luca Bertolini
Michael Batty
Chris Webster
Menno Huys and Marcel van Gils
Janneke E. Hagens
Adele Celino and Grazia Concilio
Elisabete A. Silva
Yos Sunitiyoso, Erel Avineri and Kiron Chatterjee
Erel Avineri
Joanne Tippett
Nikos Karadimitriou, Joe Doak and Elisabete Cidre
Joris Van Wezemael
Elisabete A. Silva
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Erel Avineri is a Reader in Travel Behaviour at the Centre for Transport and Society, university of the West of England, Bristol, uK. Applying behavioural economics and cognitive psychology, Dr Avineri is exploring what influences our travel behaviour, how to predict it, and how to design demand management measures to change travel behaviour.
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at university College London (UCL). His research is primarily on the development of computer models of cities and regions, with a recent focus on large data systems, and visualisation using virtual reality methods and GIS technologies. He has written many articles and books, the most recent of which is Complexity and Cities, (MIT Press, 2005). He is editor of the journal Environment and Planning B, a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded the CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2004.
Luca Bertolini is Professor of urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the university of Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus is on the integration of transport and land use planning, on methods for supporting the option-generation phase of the planning process, on concepts for coping with uncertainty in planning, and on ways of enhancing theory-practice interaction.
Adele Celino is a Civil Engineer. She took her PhD in Policies for the Sustainable Regional Development at the Universit degli Studi di Bari. Her research has been carried out at the Politechnico di Bari and has mainly centred on study and application of methodologies and tools to manage the process of knowledge representation in complex organisational environments. Her current research focuses on the role of transient constructs in organisational learning environments and in particular on the role of open content systems developed for decision making in environmental planning.
Kiron Chatterjee joined the Centre for Transport and Society, university of the West of England, Bristol, uK, as a Senior Lecturer in September 2003. Before that he was a Research Fellow at the Transportation Research Group, university of Southampton. Chatterjee started his research career at the university of Southampton in 1990 with a PhD study of accidents in road networks. After this he spent several years undertaking research on new traffic management technologies (driver information systems, motorway access control), in particular examining their impact on traveller behaviour and how this could be used to forecast network-wide impacts.
Elisabete Cidre is a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at the Bartlett School of Planning and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her main areas of research interest are urban design and heritage conservation, planning politics and institutional change.
