Complexity and Planning

Gert De Roo, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Jean Hillier, Associate Dean, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, Editor Planning Theory, RMIT University, Australia and Joris Van Wezemael, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

1: Complexity and Spatial Planning; I: Theoretical Reflections Bridging Complexity and Planning; 2: Baroque Complexity; 3: Planning in Complexity; 4: Transformative Practice as an Exploration of Possibility Spaces; II: Complex Systems and Planning, in between the Real and the Relative; 5: Complexity Theories of Cities; 6: Spatial Planning, Complexity and a World ‘Out of Equilibrium'; 7: Complexity and Transition Management; 8: Coevolutionary Planning Processes; 9: Climate Adaptation in Complex Governance Systems; 10: Beyond Blueprints? Complexity Theory as a Prospective Influence for Metropolitan Governance; 11: Considering Complex Systems; III: Assemblage and a Relational Attitude to Planning; 12: A Different View of Relational Complexity. Imagining Places through the Deleuzean Social Cartography; 13: On the Emergence of Agency in Participatory Strategic Planning; 14: Population Thinking in Architecture; 15: Coevolving Adaptive and Power Networks; IV: Simulating in between the Real and the Ideal; 16: The Metaverse as Lab to Experiment with Problems of Organized Complexity; 17: The Use of Agent-Based Modeling for Studying the Social and Physical Environment of Cities; 18: Building Mega-Models for Megacities