Garnett, Philip Richard orcid.org/0000-0001-6651-0220 (2019) Growing Smart Cities. In: Adamatzky, Andrew and Kendon, Vivien, (eds.) From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation. Emergence, Complexity and Computation . Springer , pp. 299-310.
Abstract
As the world’s population becomes increasingly urbanised the problems of building sustainable cities also grows. Using Susan Stepney’s response, “Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow”, to a science fiction story by Adam Marek titled “Growing Skyscrapers”, this chapter looks at what a living city of the future might look like, and how that might solve some of the problems of the control and development of cities. There is a long history of the application of systems thinking, cybernetics, and complex systems and the growth and control of cities. However, many problems still remain in the deployment and applications of these frameworks and methodologies, and in the potential consequences of their use. However, perhaps many of these could be solved by the development of a living city.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | COMPLEXITY,cybernetics,complex systems,Cities |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2019 11:20 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Series Name: | Emergence, Complexity and Computation |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_12 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147378 |