The civic and neighbourhood commons as complex adaptive systems

The economic vitality of the centre

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12710100
AutoresMichael Mcgreevy (0000-0002-6160-5252, University of South Australia, autor correspondente), Lou Wilson (University of South Australia)
Ano2016
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas169-185
Data de publicação2016-03-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPlanning Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1473-0952 • E-ISSN: 1741-3052
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1473095216631587
OpenAlexW2340214492
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas25

The metropolis can be understood as a complex adaptive system made up of complex adaptive subsystems that agglomerated to help create the city’s strength, resilience and dynamism. In particular, the accumulated strength and dynamism of the individual neighbourhoods that form and evolve its districts and the districts that form its regions have major impacts on the organisation and evolution of the metropolis. This article discusses the subsystems of the city, in particular its regional, district and neighbourhood transaction places or activity centres. While all metropolitan areas are complex adaptive systems, many urban subsystems constructed in the post–World War II period are not. They are instead chaotic or controlled by mechanical order. It will be argued that only the traditional ‘commons’ has the principles required of complex adaptive systems and that being such confers many benefits to the communities they serve

Adaptive capacity · Commons · Complex adaptive system · Complex system · Corporate governance · Dynamism · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Management · Metropolitan area · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Urbanization · Vitality · Computer Science · Law · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies