1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484819703321

Autore

Haken H.

Titolo

Synergetic cities : information, steady state and phase transition : implications to urban scaling, smart cities and planning / / Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-63457-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 260 p. 62 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Series in Synergetics

Disciplina

629.04

Soggetti

Transportation engineering

Traffic engineering

Computational complexity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Cities as hybrid complex systems -- Synergetics: A short reminder -- SIRN, IA and their conjunction (SIRNIA) -- Formalism I. Bottom-up approach: From parts to order parameters -- Steady states and the city -- Phase transitions -- Phase transitions and the city -- Smart cities -- Cognitive planning and professional planning -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

The book offers a novel approach to the study of the complex dynamics of cities. It is based on (1) Synergetics as a science of cooperation and selforganization, (2) information theory including semantic and pragmatic aspects, and optimization principles, (3) a theory of steady state maintenance, and of (4) phase transition, i.e. qualitative changes of structure or behavior. From this novel theoretical vantage point, the book addresses particularly three issues that stand at the core of current discourse on cities: Urban Scaling, Smart Cities and City Planning. An important consequence of “the 21st century as the age of cities”, is that the study of cities currently attracts scientists from a variety of disciplines, ranging from physics, mathematics and computer science, through urban studies, architecture, planning and human geography, to economics, psychology, sociology, public administration



and more. The book is thus likely to attract scholars, researchers and students of these research domains, of complexity theories of cities, as well as of general complexity theory. In addition, it is directed also to practitioners of urbanism, city planning and urban design.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696964403321

Titolo

Speeding and highway safety [[electronic resource] ] : the U.S. Department of Transportation's policy and implementation strategy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, , [2000]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Traffic safety - United States - Planning

Traffic accidents - United States

Speed limits - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed June 1, 2010).

"DOT HS 809 130."



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698102103321

Autore

Engel Gary T

Titolo

Financial audit [[electronic resource] ] : restatements to the National Science Foundation's fiscal year 2003 financial statements

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Government Accountability Office, , [2005]

Descrizione fisica

17 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Financial statements, Consolidated - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 17, 2006).

Author: Gary T. Engel.

"December 22, 2005."

Paper version available from: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

"GAO-06-229R."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.