A Planner's Encounter with Complexity

Bringing together a team of leading spatiial theorists, this book argues that a view of environments which are confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes is more realistic than the notion that an environment is simply a planner''s creation, and that recognising the ''complexity'' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world, our environment, planning theory and practice, and on the role of planners. At a time when the importance of complexity in planning is finally being recognised, this book clarifies many of the concepts and theories, presenting the best practice on planning and complexity and proposing new ideas and methods for planning.