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'The editors have brought together leading and upcoming experts in planning and complexity to create this state of the art volume. It is wide-ranging, thought-provoking and comprehensive, covering the latest theoretical debates in planning and complexity, international and national applications, and even localized planning issues. It is a must-read for anyone working in planning and complexity and will undoubtedly be a benchmark for the next wave of works on planning and complexity and policymaking in general.' -- Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK 'This excellent collection of chapters makes a direct contribution to understanding how planning interventions can interact with, and rise above, the self-organizing forces of complexity and uncertainty. The threads of governance, rationality, modelling, communication, contextualization and adaptability are interwoven across different chapters. By breaking down the divide between technical and political approaches, between theory and methods, the book is charged with positive energy and inspirational ideas to pursue more discursive and non-linear thinking in spatial planning.' -- Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester, UK 'This volume critically engages complexity thinking to identify possibilities for the reinvention of spatial planning as a meshwork of complementary mutual interrelations, purposeful interventions and subjective interactions. The book is an important source for scholars interested in pushing forward the frontiers of theoretical reasoning and practical modelling in the dynamic, non-linear world in which we live.' -- Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Australia 'An excellent anthology linking the important new domain of complexity theory to urban and regional planning practice. De Roo and other contributors provide original insights into the wicked, messy, vague and dynamic problems that confront planners. A must-read for quantitative and qualitative city and regional planners, geographers, regional scientists, and anyone involved in spatial planning who wants to understand and model the way in which cities interact with each other in complex non-linear adaptive systems.' -- Richard LeGates, San Francisco State University, US 'The most significant promise of using complexity theory in planning research is in the explicit search for alternative pathways to cope with the fallibility of purposive planning strategies . The lens of complexity theory enables planning research to explore beyond linearity. This Handbook provides a unique oversight of the outcomes thus far.' -- Willem Salet, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Urban planning and complexity have been studied separately for the past four decades. However, there is a close relationship between spontaneous order that emerges from urban complexity and planned order that is brought about through planning. In this book, Gert de Roo, Claudia Yamu, and Christian Zuidema focus on the interaction between the two phenomena and shed new light on how urban complexity works and how we should deal with it. It is a must-read for those who are seriously concerned about planning theories in the twenty-first century.' -- Shih-Kung Lai, Tongji University, China

'The editors have brought together leading and upcoming experts in complexity and planning to create this 'state of the art' volume. It is wide ranging, thought provoking and comprehensive, covering the latest theoretical debates in complexity and planning, international and national applications, and even localised planning issues. It is a 'must read' for anyone working in planning and complexity and will undoubtedly be a benchmark for the next wave of works on complexity and planning and policy-making in general.' -- Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK 'This excellent collection of chapters makes a direct contribution to understanding how planning interventions can interact with and rise above the self-organising forces of complexity and uncertainty. The threads of governance, rationality, modelling, communication, contextualisation and adaptability are interwoven across different chapters. By breaking down the divide between technical and political approaches, between theory and methods, the book is charged with positive energy and inspirational ideas to pursue more discursive and non-linear thinking in spatial planning.' -- Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester, UK 'This volume critically engages complexity thinking to identify possibilities for the reinvention of spatial planning as a meshwork of complementary mutual interrelations, purposeful interventions and subjective interactions. The book is an important source for scholars interested in pushing forward the frontiers of theoretical reasoning and practical modelling in the dynamic, non-linear world in which we live.' -- Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Australia 'An excellent anthology linking the important new domain of complexity theory to urban and regional planning practice. De Roo and other contributors provide original insights into the wicked, messy, vague and dynamic problems that confront planners. A must read for quantitative and qualitative city and regional planners, geographers, regional scientists, and anyone involved in spatial planning who wants to understand and model the way in which cities interact with each other in complex non-linear adaptive systems.' -- Richard LeGates, San Francisco State University, US 'The most significant promise of using complexity theory in planning research is in the explicit search for alternative pathways to cope with the fallibility of purposive planning strategies . The lens of complexity theory enables planning research to explore beyond linearity. This Handbook provides a unique oversight of the outcomes thus far.' -- Willem Salet, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Urban complexity and planning have been studied separately for the past four decades. However, there is a close relationship between spontaneous order that emerges from urban complexity and planned order that is brought about through planning. In this book, Gert de Roo, Claudia Yamu, and Christian Zuidema focus on the interaction between the two phenomena and shed new light on how urban complexity works and how we should deal with it. It is a must-read for those who are seriously concerned about planning theories in the 21st century.' -- Shih-Kung Lai, Tongji University, China

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Edited by Gert de Roo, Professor in Spatial Planning, Claudia Yamu, Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Christian Zuidema, Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

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