Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design

Part I. Complexity, Cognition and Cities

1. What Makes Cities Complex?
Juval Portugali

2. Evolving a Plan: Design and Planning with Complexity
Michael Batty

3. Self-organization and Design as a Complementary Pair
J. A. Scott Kelso, Egbert Stolk, Juval Portugali

4. Cultivating Complexity: The Need for a Shift in Cognition
N. John Habraken

5. The Fourth Sustainability, Creativity: Statistical Associations and Credible Mechanisms
Bill Hillier

6. Design Thinking as Principles for the Structure of Creative Cities
Andy Dong

Part II. On Termites, Rats, Other Animals and Cities

7. Swarm Cognition and Swarm Construction: Lessons from a Social Insect Master Builder
Scott Turner

8. Physical, Behavioral and Spatiotemporal Perspectives of Home in Humans and Other Animals
Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, David Eilam

Part III. Complexity, Cognition and Planning

9. Framing the Planning Game: A Cognitive Understanding of the Planner’s Rationale in a Differentiated World
Gert Roo

10. Global Scale Predictions of Cities in Urban and in Cognitive Planning
Roni Sela

11. Emotional Cognition in Urban Planning and Design
Paul Thagard

Part IV. Complexity, Cognition and Design

12. A Complexity-Cognitive View on Scale in Urban Design
Egbert Stolk, Juval Portugali

13. Lines: Orderly and Messy
Barbara Tversky

14. Creative Challenge and Cognitive Constraint: Students’ Use of A Pattern Language for Complex Design
Stephen Marshall

15. The Evolution of City Gaming
Ekim Tan

16. Designing for Different Dynamics: The Search for a New Practice of Planning and Design in the Dutch Delta
Han Meyer, Steffen Nijhuis

Keywords: Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Complexity, Urbanism