Call for papers
14th AESOP Complexity and Planning Thematic Group Meeting
February 11th-12th, 2016, University of Bamberg, Germany
The number of studies on the planning and governance of the urban that use concepts and ideas from the complexity sciences has gone up significantly. Naturally, complexity’s increasing popularity also attracts criticism. An often voiced criticism, for instance, is that the applications of complexity in urban planning and governance are little more than semantic novelty.
The right response to such criticism is to examine it and to demonstrate that complexity does have utility in the urban planning for the 21st century. Does complexity science live up to its promises? Now that we have been using complexity in planning for quite a while, we ought to be able to answer that question.
For this workshop, we therefore invite papers that take stock of the complexity sciences. In particular contributions with a focus on
research methods, complexity-friendly governance arrangements, translating complexity to practice, and
information technology and planning will be highly appreciated.
