Designing the Complex City - A Systemic Approach to Spatial Design

Using key concepts from systems thinking, complexity sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences, the book frames a systemic spatial design approach aimed at enhancing the potential of different spatial design disciplines to navigate place-specific emergent transformations without overdetermining their formal outcome.

Sommario

1. Introduction: Urban complexity, systems thinking, spatial design
2. An embodied approach: Intervening in spontaneous socio-spatial dynamics
3. Open design: Directing rather than mastering emergent transformations
4. Design as a 'good perturbation': Navigating adaptive cycles in cities
5. A multi-scale living atlas: Detecting leverage points for spatial action
6. Systemic spatial design: Enhancing synergies between different design disciplines
7. An eco-systemic approach: Fostering city vitality
8. Conclusion: Cultivating urban complexity: The systemic turn in spatial design disciplines

Info autore

Elena Porqueddu is an architect and researcher based in Milan. After gaining a Ph.D. in Architecture, Urban Design and Conservation of Housing and Landscape from the Polytechnic of Milan, she continues to dedicate her activities as a scholar and lecturer to exploring the interplay between spatial design disciplines and the emergence/evolution of spontaneous social-spatial configurations, and to studying the implications of systems thinking for spatial design.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elena Porqueddu
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032801384
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3280138-4
• Pagine: 186
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Annuals, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Urban & municipal planning, Social discrimination & inequality, Public Administration, Interdisciplinary studies, Literary theory, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Social discrimination and social justice, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis