Don’t let the poster mis­lead you! TU Delft’s U-Lab comes up with a daring con­fer­ence break­ing from its single-​disciplinary con­ser­vatism. During 3 days from Sep­tem­ber 24th on math­e­mati­cians, physi­cists, urban­ists and design­ers gather in Delft. They will explore the impli­ca­tions of com­plex­ity the­o­ries of cities to plan­ning and urban design. Besides hot­shot pro­fes­sors Juval Por­tu­gali, Bill Hillier, and Mike Batty, gonna-be’s, or maybe wanna-be’s like Egbert and me will take the floor.

The con­fer­ence has a lim­ited audi­ence capac­ity, and is first-​come, first served! For more infor­ma­tion, you may see com​plex​i​tythe​o​riesofc​i​ties.com, send an email to me and check out the other dates in our cal­en­dar of selected Rot­ter­dam Archi­tec­ture Events.

Three decades of research have estab­lished the field of com­plex­ity the­o­ries of cities as a dom­i­nant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been achieved, with appre­ci­a­tion, but also with sober crit­i­cism and then look for­ward at poten­tials that have yet to be real­ized. Con­tinue read­ing ‘Complexity Theory Con­fer­ence @ TU Delft’