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Category Archives: Path Dependence
The Path Dependent City
Sometimes, we miss the best of articles … Complexity theory has found it hard to embrace policy as well as the other way round. Woodlief’s 1998 paper shows that it is not only routine development that generates path dependence but … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence, Path Dependence, Policy Analysis
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Frozen Accidents
Murray Gell-Mann says the “accumulation of frozen accidents is what gives the world its effective complexity.” These are events that define path dependence. The idea that a city is a sequence of accidents sharpens our sense of cities as patterns of regularity. … Continue reading
Posted in Chaos, Complex Systems, Evolution, Path Dependence
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