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>