Urban Systems: Mapping Interdependencies and Outcomes to Support Systems Thinking
Urban Systems: Mapping Interdependencies and Outcomes to Support Systems Thinking
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10.1029/2019ef001389
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2020-03
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M. Bedinger;L. Beevers;Guy H. Walker;A. Visser-Quinn;K. McClymont
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M. Bedinger;L. Beevers;Guy H. Walker;A. Visser-Quinn;K. McClymont
本文认为，城市系统问题是一个大规模的设计问题，旨在解决这些问题的各种学科只能有一个局部的问题。有必要对具体问题的详细分析划清界限，但仍然缺乏一种方法来描绘更广泛的系统，了解背景情况并更深入地了解它们是如何相互关联的。与复杂系统推理相关的四个复杂性障碍阻碍了我们，据我们所知，没有现有的方法可以有效地导航它们。我们提出了一种称为抽象层次的工具，作为一种方法来做到这一点，为了在大规模上框架复杂的问题，在所有学科都可以访问的方式。为了证明这个系统模型的力量，抽象层次被应用到一个城市地区。通过它的应用，我们展示了它的能力，导航所有四个障碍，并调查以前未开发的空间在城市系统的研究。
This paper argues that urban systems issues are design problems on a grand scale and that various disciplines aiming to address them can have only a partial view of the problem. It is necessary to draw boundaries around the detailed analyses of specific issues, but a way to map the wider system, to contextualize and more deeply understand how they are interrelated, is still lacking. Four complexity obstacles related to reasoning about complex systems are in our way, and to our knowledge no existing approach navigates them effectively. We propose a tool called the Abstraction Hierarchy as a way to do just this, in order to frame complex issues on a large scale, in a way accessible to all disciplines. To demonstrate the power of this systems model, the Abstraction Hierarchy is applied to an urban area. Through its application we demonstrate its capability to navigate all four obstacles and investigate previously unexplored space in urban systems research.