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Theories and Models of Urbanization

Geography, Economics and Computing Sciences

Editors:

  1. Denise Pumain

    1. Department of Geography, University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France

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  • Presents the discussion of controversial questions by experts in urban sciences

  • Provides clear presentation of diverging and converging visions about crucial urban issues

  • Discusses the views from famous prominent scholars in major parts of the world

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Denise Pumain
    Pages 1-9

  3. Theories of Complexity and Urban Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Defining Complexity in Cities

      • Michael Batty
      Pages 13-26

  4. Scaling Laws: Universal Solutions for Urban Planning or Contingent Products of Circumstances?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Scaling Laws: Insights and Limitations

      • Elsa Arcaute, Erez Hatna
      Pages 45-66

    4. The Topology of Communicating Across Cities of Increasing Sizes, or the Complex Task of “Reaching Out” in Larger Cities

      • Horacio Samaniego, Mauricio Franco-Cisterna, Boris Sotomayor-Gómez
      Pages 97-118

  5. Economy Versus Geography: Theories of Urbanization and Cities Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    4. On the Survival of Butterflies in the Jungle of Urban Systems

      • Lena Sanders, Isabelle Thomas, Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo
      Pages 151-167

  7. Complex Systems Modeling for Better Understanding Urbanization Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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About this book

This book provides a thorough discussion about fundamental questions regarding urban theories and modeling. It is a curated collection of contributions to a workshop held in Paris on October 12th and 13th 2017 at the Institute of Complex Systems by the team of ERC GeoDiverCity. There are several chapters conveying the answers given by single authors to problems of conceptualization and modeling and others in which scholars reply to their conception and question them. Even, the chapters transcribing keynote presentations were rewritten according to contributions from the respective discussions. The result is a complete “state of the art” of what is our knowledge about urban processes and their possible formalization.
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Keywords

  • world urbanization
  • evolutionary economic geography
  • historical complex systems
  • spatial simulation models
  • urban diversity
  • cities and systems of cities
  • urban processes
  • urban systems
  • urban planning
  • urban economics
  • mega cities
  • emerging countries
  • urbanization theory
  • urban geography and urbanism
  • complexity
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Denise Pumain

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About the editor

Denise Pumain trained in geography at Ecole Normale Supérieure; she was lecturer at University Paris I from 1970, researcher at the National Institute of Demography (1981–1986), Professor at University Paris 13 (1986–1989) then at University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Former Chair of the Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life of the IGU (1992–2000), founder of the research laboratory P.A.R.I.S. (1984), Director of the UMR Géographie-cités (CNRS 1992–2000), the European Research Group S4 (Spatial Simulation for Social Sciences, 2006–2013), Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography (founded 1996), Principal Investigator of the ERC advanced grant GeoDiverCity, http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/ (2011–2016). Her main scientific contribution is about building an evolutionary theory of urban systems and transferring concepts and models from self-organizing complex systems toward social sciences. She was chief executive of education and research for the Académie de Grenoble (2000–2001) and first scientific coordinator for social sciences at the French Agency for research assessment (2007–2008). She was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at University of Lausanne and Liege and silver medal of the CNRS and Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography in 2010. She is corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2009 and corresponding fellow of the British Academy since 2012. She is officer in French Order “Legion d’honneur” and “Ordre du merite.”
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