[Fis] Information Science and the City

[Francesco Rizzo]

Caro Pedro e cari tutti,
mi permetto di segnalarVi che la mia "Nuova economia" è basata sul
 processo di tras-in-form-azione. Si cfr. a tal proposito, fra i tanti
altri:
-Rizzo F., ""Valore e valutazioni. La scienza dell'economia o l'economia
della scienza", FancoAngeli, Milano 1999;
-Rizzo F., "Nuova economia. Felicità del lavoro creativo e della
conservazione della natura. Infelicità della speculazione finanziaria",
Aracne editrice, Roma, 2013;
-Rizzo F., "Incontro d'amore tra il cuore della fede e l'intelligenza della
scienza. Un salto nel cielo", Aracne editrice, Roma 2014.
Ho dedicato mezzo secolo di ricerca per ri-comprendere e ri-significare la
scienza economica. Quello che scrivo non  è una presunzione.
Auguri per un'intensa ripresa e grazie.
Francesco Rizzo.



2014-06-05 14:25 GMT+02:00 Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>:

> Dear FISers,
>
> Among the many interesting themes where the information science
> perspective may provide useful orientations, cities are one of the most
> singular. A recent work by Michel Batty on the New Science of Cities (2013,
> MIT) makes a lot of connections with our oft discussed info topics. A
> Communication Theory of Urban Growth was developed by Richard Meier (1962);
> a fluxes perspective was already attempted by Patrick Geddes (1949). In
> essence I have found that the idea of information flows and material flows
> as catching and intertwining each other, with their highly different
> regimes, heterogeneity and energy contents, appears as an important focus
> in order to better understand the globalized city. Scaling is one of the
> essential concepts...
>
> I am not aware that scaling has been applied to the informational analysis
> itself (obviously it is the cornerstone of self-similarity). What I mean is
> that a micro-level of communication analysis may be quite different from
> the meso-level, and the from macro-level. Thinking in the human case
> (biologically it could make sense too) the micro level is dominated by
> syntaxis, by a Shannonian type of analysis on messages emitted from a
> sourced to a receiver. The meso level contains meaning, value (fitness),
> purpose, and in general it implies the communication associated to the
> behavioral episodes and living rhythms of individuals. While in the macro
> level, many individuals' actions, works, products, etc. are aggregated into
> fluxes or flows, basically of two kinds those devoted to the material
> (self-production) and those carrying the info stuff devoted to
> communication; then it invites analysis of network science, operations
> research, economic efficiency, etc., and of course the direct flow
> perspective as Bejan and Peder (2011) have attempted in one of the most
> interesting theories on self-constructing flow systems. Depending on the
> information perspective in which we observe human communication, we will
> need one or another lens to better make sense of what is happening.
>
> My impression is that a more mature info science could be quite helpful in
> this new field of urban development science --most people nowadays are
> living in cities. Top down planning will fail if it is does not match with
> the bottom up processes, both in communication and self-production aspects.
> Keeping an adequate social flow of information, a well-mixed regime of
> communication, is the essence of democracy. The contemporary "epidemics of
> loneliness" for instance may be due among other social and demographic
> causes to failures in bureaucratic high level planning...
>
> best ---Pedro
>
> PS. After the nasty computer crash months ago, we should try to enliven
> the list--shouldn't we?
>
> --
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> Pedro C. Marijuán
> Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
> Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
> Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
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