Townscape as a model of organised complexity

The phrase 'organised complexity' will be remembered by readers of the last chapter of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, published in 1961. It is the answer she brought to the question in the chapter title, 'The kind of problem a city is', using a phras...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of architecture (London, England) England), 2012-10, Vol.17 (5), p.691-702
Main Author: Powers, Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Cities
Urban planning
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The phrase 'organised complexity' will be remembered by readers of the last chapter of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, published in 1961. It is the answer she brought to the question in the chapter title, 'The kind of problem a city is', using a phrase from current scientific theory to help explain the difference between the thinking about cities that she was opposing and what she was promoting in its place, the difference between them amounting to 'virtually the intellectual history of city planning.'
ISSN:1360-2365
1466-4410
DOI:10.1080/13602365.2012.724853