Urban system and complexity. Socio-spatial fragmentation as a systemic process of inequality

The shape of cities has historically been the expression of complex processes of material and energy differentiation. Like any open and self-regulating system, it needs to evolve by exchanging flows of information and matter with its environment based on non-linear interactions made up of hierarchie...

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Published in:Estoa 2024-07, Vol.13 (26), p.203-216
Main Author: Ferretti, Mariano Adrián
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
coevolución urbana
complejidad urbana
Complexity
desigualdad urbana
Dialectics
Dynamic structural analysis
Energy
espacial
fragmentación socio
Fragmentation
Hierarchies
Inequality
Information flow
Information theory
Metabolism
sistemas urbanos
socio
spatial fragmentation
Subsystems
System theory
Urban areas
urban coevolution
urban complexity
urban inequality
Urban Studies
urban systems
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Summary:The shape of cities has historically been the expression of complex processes of material and energy differentiation. Like any open and self-regulating system, it needs to evolve by exchanging flows of information and matter with its environment based on non-linear interactions made up of hierarchies and complementarities necessary for its adaptation. In order to establish causality with the phenomenon of socio-spatial fragmentation, structural inequality has been analyzed as a stratifying factor of spatialities in urban space. The dialectical hermeneutic method has allowed the modeling of concepts from information theory and thermodynamics to explain the interaction logic of the operating subsystems and their consequences in the hybrid structuring of urban space. The identification of cycles and morphogenetic causality in the production of spatialities forms a theoretical-conceptual contribution to the study of urban dynamics when spatial proximity coexists with social distance as a norm.
ISSN:1390-9274
1390-7263
1390-9274
DOI:10.18537/est.v013.n026.a14