Cities have for a long time been viewed as a collection of individual static objects, onto which rigid, top-down plans are administered. For many decades now, some urban scholars have questioned whether the status quo that current planning practices maintain, with its limited view of cities, can provide planning approaches that are needed in order to tackle the environmental and social challenges that the urbanising planet faces. As a way to address these shortcomings in planning, complex systems theory has for some decades been suggested as a potential framework. Within this context, this thesis explores the possibilities of approaching cities as complex systems, through creating an urban DNA classification for describing the growth of 18 ...
Highlights • Finnish city regions expanded mostly into previous forest areas during 2000–2012. ...
This paper examines utopian-geographical thinking as a method for critical urban planning research. ...
In international debate on urban planning and design during the past ten years, the predominant idea...
Urbanisation is a strong megatrend that is usually connected to big cities. This trend easily oversh...
Cities are formed when a number of people, different societal functions and structures are densely c...
Abstract Until now, one of the main functions of urban planning has been to guide urban growth. How...
Contemporary urban planning theories and practices are still dealing with the linear procedures and ...
This research is based upon a three level model of a network city. It forms a structural framework f...
This master's thesis deals with transformation of urban brownfield areas in the town of Kotka, Finla...
Diplomityön tarkoituksena oli selvittää mitä tarpeita ja haasteita kaupungeilla on kaupunkimalleihin...
Master's Thesis forms a picture of impacts and possibilities of traffic upon urban development in la...
Compact and efficient urban development is a goal for many larger cities. Downtown areas become tig...
Master planning is still the most used urban design method despite its known flaws. New computation...
Human actions in the past centuries, along with global population growth and urbanization, have caus...
A 3D city model is a wide-area digital spatial data set, which consists of three dimensionally mode ...
Highlights • Finnish city regions expanded mostly into previous forest areas during 2000–2012. ...
This paper examines utopian-geographical thinking as a method for critical urban planning research. ...
In international debate on urban planning and design during the past ten years, the predominant idea...
Urbanisation is a strong megatrend that is usually connected to big cities. This trend easily oversh...
Cities are formed when a number of people, different societal functions and structures are densely c...
Abstract Until now, one of the main functions of urban planning has been to guide urban growth. How...
Contemporary urban planning theories and practices are still dealing with the linear procedures and ...
This research is based upon a three level model of a network city. It forms a structural framework f...
This master's thesis deals with transformation of urban brownfield areas in the town of Kotka, Finla...
Diplomityön tarkoituksena oli selvittää mitä tarpeita ja haasteita kaupungeilla on kaupunkimalleihin...
Master's Thesis forms a picture of impacts and possibilities of traffic upon urban development in la...
Compact and efficient urban development is a goal for many larger cities. Downtown areas become tig...
Master planning is still the most used urban design method despite its known flaws. New computation...
Human actions in the past centuries, along with global population growth and urbanization, have caus...
A 3D city model is a wide-area digital spatial data set, which consists of three dimensionally mode ...
Highlights • Finnish city regions expanded mostly into previous forest areas during 2000–2012. ...
This paper examines utopian-geographical thinking as a method for critical urban planning research. ...
In international debate on urban planning and design during the past ten years, the predominant idea...