Deeper City

<p><em>Deeper City</em> is the first major application of new thinking on ‘deeper complexity’, applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality. The author provides a new framework for the <em>collective intelligence</em> – the capacity for learning and synergy – in many-layered cities, technologies, economies, ecologies and political systems. </p><p>The key is in synergistic mapping and design, which can move beyond smart ‘winner-takes-all’ competition, towards <em>wiser</em> human systems of cooperation where ‘winners-are-all’. Forty distinct pathways ‘from smart to wise’ are mapped in <em>Deeper City</em> and presented for strategic action, ranging from local neighbourhoods to global finance.</p><p>As an atlas of the future, and resource library of pathway mappings, this book expands on the author’s previous work, <i>City-Region 2020</i>. From a decade of development and testing, <i>Deeper City</i> combines visual thinking with a narrative style and practical guidance. This book will be indispensable for those seeking a sustainable future – students, politicians, planners, systems designers, activists, engineers and researchers.</p><p>A new postscript looks at how these methods can work with respect to the 2020 pandemic, and asks, ‘How can we turn crisis towards transformation?'</p> <p><b>PROLOGUE </b>1.1 What’s the big idea? <i>Deeper questions</i> </p><p>1.2 What’s the big picture? <i>Wider visions</i> </p><p>1.3 What’s a Deeper City? <i>Concepts and FAQs</i></p><p>1.4 Where to start? <i>Book-in-use </i></p><p>2. <b>PROSPECTS </b> </p><p>2.1 Here there be dragons: <i>Think-onomics-III</i></p><p>2.2 The future starts now: <i>Nexus-connexus </i> </p><p>2.3 Cases and places:<i> City-state-planet </i></p><p>3. <b>TOOLKITS</b></p><p>3.1 Where to start: <i>Synergistics-Landscape</i> </p><p>3.2 What’s the problem: <i>System-Mapping</i></p><p>3.3 What’s coming up: <i>Scenario-Mapping</i> </p><p>3.4 What’s the vision: <i>Synergy-Mapping</i></p><p>3.5 What’s to be done: <i>Strategy-Mapping</i> </p><p>3.6 What next: <i>Toolkits-III</i></p><p>4. <b>CITIES</b></p><p>4.1 What problem: <i>Cities-Landscape</i> </p><p>4.2 Where to live: <i>Neighbourhood-III</i></p><p>4.3 How to build: <i>Housing-III</i> </p><p>4.4 How to renew: <i>Retrofit-III</i></p><p>4.5 Where to build: <i>City-region-III</i> </p><p>4.6 Where not to build: <i>Anti-city-region-III</i></p><p>4.7 How to plan: <i>Civic-design-III</i> </p><p>4.8 Pathways: <i>Cities-III</i></p><p>5. <b>ECONOMIES</b></p><p>5.1 What problem: <i>Economies-Landscape</i> </p><p>5.2 Where to work: <i>Local-onomics-III</i></p><p>5.3 Which resources: <i>Circul-onomics-III</i> </p><p>5.4 How to create value: <i>Enterprise-III</i> </p><p>5.5 How to invest: <i>Finance-III</i> </p><p>5.6 How to grow and why: <i>Prosperity-III</i></p><p>5.7 Pathways: <i>Economies-III</i></p><p>6. <b>ECOLOGIES</b> </p><p>6.1 What problem: <i>Ecologies-Landscape </i></p><p>6.2 How to be green: <i>Eco-Urban-III</i> </p><p>6.3 How to be cool: <i>Climate-III </i></p><p>6.4 How to thrive: <i>Adaptation-III</i> </p><p>6.5 How to grow and eat: <i>Food-III</i> </p><p>6.6 Pathways: <i>Ecologies-III</i></p><p>7. <b>TECHNOLOGIES</b> </p><p>7.1 What problem: <i>Technologies-Landscape</i></p><p>7.2 On the frontier: <i>Informatics-III</i> </p><p>7.3 On the value-chain: <i>Smart-Services-III</i> </p><p>7.4 On the platform: <i>Smart-Communities-III</i> </p><p>7.5 How to learn: <i>Education-III</i></p><p>7.6 How to know: <i>Science-III</i> </p><p>7.7 Pathways: <i>Tech-Knowledges-III</i> </p><p>8. <b>POLITICALS</b></p><p>8.1 What problem: <i>Political-Landscape</i> </p><p>8.2 Where to take control: <i>Multi-level-III</i> </p><p>8.3 How to manage: <i>Organizations-III</i></p><p>8.4 How to be well-fair: <i>Public-Service-III</i> </p><p>8.5 Who gets what: <i>Equalities-III</i></p><p>8.6 The state to come: <i>Co-opolism-III </i> </p><p>8.7 Pathways for a <i>Politics-III</i> </p><p>9. <b>INSIGHTS</b></p><p>9.1 How to think: <i>Deeper-Mind-III</i> </p><p>9.2 How to decide: <i>E/Valuation-III</i></p><p>9.3 How to thrive: <i>Resilience-III</i> </p><p>9.4 How to look ahead: <i>Foresight-III</i></p><p>10. <b>LOCAL-GLOBAL</b></p><p>10.1 From personal to political: <i>Societal-III</i> </p><p>10.2 Where and when: <i>Developmental-III</i> </p><p>10.3 All in the mind: <i>Global-III</i> </p><p>10.4 What next: <i>Multi-versity</i><i>-III</i></p><p>11. <b>MIND-GAMES </b></p><p>Postscript: <em>From crisis to transformation</em></p><p>12. <b>ANNEX</b> </p><p>121 Glossary and abbreviations</p><p>12.2 Summary tables </p><p>Bibliography </p><p>Index</p>