Urban Systems
Systems Science is one or our great hopes for a method of addressing the major challenges facing our world in the 21st century and beyond. Large among these challenges are:
- Climate change and the adaptation of our environment to these changes
- Lower impact economies and living
- Transition from the centralized systems of the Industrial Age to the distributed systems of the Information Age
The implementation of solutions to these challenges will, to a very large extent (at least 70%), be implemented in cities around the world. Hence the understanding of cities as complex systems must be a primary target for GSS. Continue reading GSS Urban Development Workshop: Topics, Questions, Answers, etc.