Committee on the Environment

What Systems Thinking offers for City Planning

  • 1.  What Systems Thinking offers for City Planning

    Posted 10-18-2014 07:21 PM
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    Friday, October 17, 2014

    From Buildings to Communities to Systems - the Bigger Picture

    The power of aspiration is so much bigger than the power of desperation (Peter Senge)
    In telling stories about cities on this blog there is the constant interplay between the general and the specific. The interplay between the parts and the whole is well known in science, philosophy and architecture. This article is an interdisciplinary journey into systems theory, complexity and physics to see what tolls and insights those fields can offer designers, architects and city planners.
    Knowledge about the parts that make up a city must be a constituent part of even the biggest ....

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    Klaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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