ECSS'06: A One-Day Satellite Workshop:
Thursday 28th September 2006
Complexity Dynamics: Volatility & Stability in City & Regional Systems

About the Workshop

At the European Conference on Complex Systems to be held in late September in Oxford, we are planning a one day workshop on urban dynamics and complexity which will attempt to provide a survey of the state of the art. To attend the workshop, it is necessary to attend and register for the whole conference. We have a number of speakers who have already agreed to present their work and we are now soliciting papers from others who are attending the meeting.

The focus of the workshop will not merely be in urban dynamics but on volatility and stability in city and regional systems, focussing on key concepts in complexity such as chaos, bifurcation, emergence, path dependence and so on. We also wish to encourage speakers who will present alternative approaches to urban and regional dynamics, drawn from any area of the social and physical sciences.