Baroque Complexity 'If Things were Simple, Word Would Have Gotten Round' 1

This chapter focuses on some important factors humans create: government and non-profit agencies. The world of governance is made up of myriad of these government parts and their interactions. They constitute a complex intergovernmental system within which and through which planning operates. It als...

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Published inComplexity and Planning pp. 37 - 73
Main Author Hillier, Jean
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2012
Edition1
Subjects
Romantic Complexity
Complex Systems Theory
Multi Pli City
UK Government Policy
Rank Size Distributions
Strategic Spatial Planning
Port Authorities
Vice Versa
Gert De Roo
UK Government
ABM
Cellular Automata
Baroque Complexity
Urban Heat Islands
Spatial Planning Practice
CAS
Knorr Cetina
Large Scale Urban Models
Intergovernmental System
Smooth Space
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Striated Space
Space Time Geographic Information Systems
Spatial Planning
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Summary:This chapter focuses on some important factors humans create: government and non-profit agencies. The world of governance is made up of myriad of these government parts and their interactions. They constitute a complex intergovernmental system within which and through which planning operates. It also examines the case of complexity of the US intergovernmental system. It finds that the US intergovernmental system is indeed complex, self-organizing, adapting and highly interdependent. The US intergovernmental system, purposely structured to be complex, evolved through processes of federal program development, interest group liberalism, and partisan mutual adjustment, correcting negative side effects and expanding roles for non-profit organizations. The intergovernmental system has the key features of a complex adaptive system: agents: individual agents, connected by networks, Interactions: agents interact dynamically, exchanging information, Nonlinearity: interactions are nonlinear, iterative, recursive and self-referential, systems behavior: system is open, system's behavior determined by interactions not by components, robustness and adaptation: capacity to maintain viability and evolve.
ISBN:1138109584
9781409403470
1409403475
9781138109582
DOI:10.4324/9781315573199-3