Overview: A unique blend, reconciling the approaches from hard and soft sciences towards urbanism..Traces the historical perspective necessary to understand modern issues..Richly illustrated..Includes supplemen.Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics. In this work, the author goes beyond merely seeing the city as a self-organized, emerging pattern of some co
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