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The Fractal Geometry of Urban Organisation: Beyond the Crisis of ‘Spontaneous Order’

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Modern science has been marked, from its birth to our days, by an analytical approach to the complexity of real world phenomena: complexity has been decomposed into simple objects and ‘basic laws’ deriving from observation at this fundamental level have been proposed1 (see e.g. Oldroyd, 1986, for an extensive and detailed discussion). One could say that this approach tries to understand the world in the same way that children do when they discover the internal structure of a toy by taking it apart. In recent years the scientific approach to the study of complexity has undergone a deep transformation that can be interpreted as an overall change of paradigm2 (see e.g. Ceruti, 1992).

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  1. Lorenza Lucchi Basili
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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecniche per i Processi di Insediamento, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Mattioli 39, 10125, Torino, Italia

    Cristoforo Sergio Bertuglia  & Alfredo Mela  & 

  2. Rete dell’Alta Tecnologia, Via Ciro Menotti 6, 50136, Regione Toscana Firenze, Italia

    Giuliano Bianchi

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Basili, L.L. (1998). The Fractal Geometry of Urban Organisation: Beyond the Crisis of ‘Spontaneous Order’. In: Bertuglia, C.S., Bianchi, G., Mela, A. (eds) The City and Its Sciences. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95929-5_8

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