Abstract
This paper examines how physical and material properties of the urban fabric help enable the evolution of programmatically coherent spatial districts. It considers how contingent and non-linear processes intertwine to manifest in the unfolding of distinct sites and territories. Drawing concepts and terminology from both evolutionary economic geography and the sciences of complexity, it emphasizes how physically situated morphological traits help underpin urban processes of self-organization and emergence.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 30-47 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- complexity
- emergence
- evolutionary economics
- phase space
- self-organization