Climax City: Masterplanning and the Complexity of Urban Growth

by Shruti Hemani, David David, David Rudlin

Book Award Finalist for Urban Design Group Awards 2020

Human settlements are the result of a mix of self-organisation and planning. Planners are fighting a losing battle to impose order on chaotic systems. Connections between the process of urban growth and the fields of complexity theory are of increasing importance to planners and urbanists alike; the idea that cities are emergent structures created not by design but from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859467636
• ISBN13: 9781859467633
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Riba Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 9.9"