There is an increasing awareness that a city needs to be understood as a complex interacting system. Different types of urban systems overlap to build up urban complexity in a living city. This raises the need for concepts such as coherence, emergence, information, self-organization, and adaptivity.

 

Principles of Urban Structure is a collection of important essays, written and published over the last fifteen years in various journals. In this book, Nikos Salingaros integrates his expertise about physics and mathematics with his knowledge of urban problems. His ideas build in particular on the work of Alexander, Mandelbrot, and the much more recent development of network science in statistical physics.