Titlebook: Synergetic Cities: Information, Steady State and Phase Transition; Implications to Urba Hermann Haken,Juval Portugali Book 2021 The Editor(

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Introduction,Four concepts make the title of this book: ., ., . and .. Our aim in this introductory discussion is to shortly introduce each concept, their interrelations and the way we’ll elaborate on them in this book.

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Steady States and the CityChapter 8 opens Part II of the book by exploring the process of ‘steady state and the city’ – a property that is at the center of cities as complex systems and has not as yet received sufficient attention in the domain of CTC. We show that a steady state entails, and is made possible by, a network of interdependencies of the actions of citizens.

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Concluding NotesWe conclude our book with a few preliminary comments on the COVID-19 pandemic which, as already can be seen, exhibits many of the ingredients of a complex system as well as strong links to cities, while its possible future effects on cities and their dynamics have yet to be seen.

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Hermann Haken,Juval PortugaliIntroduction 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

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Synergetic Cities: Information, Steady State and Phase Transition978-3-030-63457-5Series ISSN 0172-7389 Series E-ISSN 2198-333X

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ral new theoretical models have been developed, which are based on a more complex view of economic agents’ motivations. At the empirical level, many studies have been focused on the context-dependent nature of other-regarding behavior. From a socio-economic point of view, particularly interesting is