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Considering how morphological traits of urban fabric create affordances for complex adaptation and emergence

Author(s) -

Sharon Wohl

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

progress in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1477-0288

pISSN - 0309-1325

DOI - 10.1177/0309132514566344

Subject(s) - affordance , situated , terminology , adaptation (eye) , economic geography , sociology , geography , computer science , biology , human–computer interaction , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience

This paper examines how physical and material properties of the urban fabric help enable the evolution of programmatically coherent spatial districts. It considers how contingent and non-linear processes intertwine to manifest in the unfolding of distinct sites and territories. Drawing concepts and terminology from both evolutionary economic geography and the sciences of complexity, it emphasizes how physically situated morphological traits help underpin urban processes of self-organization and emergence.

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