Handbook on Planning and Complexity

Download or read book Handbook on Planning and Complexity written by Gert de Roo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook shows the enormous impetus given to the scientific debate by linking planning as a science of purposeful interventions and complexity as a science of spontaneous change and non-linear development. Emphasising the importance of merging planning and complexity, this comprehensive Handbook also clarifies key concepts and theories, presents examples on planning and complexity and proposes new ideas and methods which emerge from synthesising the discipline of spatial planning with complexity sciences.