ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a framework for understanding the situation to be dealt with, and to assert that the task is actually a doable one. Emergent properties, as in S. Kauffman's The Origins of Order, are central to ideas about complexity. D. Massey says: precisely that element of the chaotic, or dislocated, which is intrinsic to the spatial, has effects on the social phenomena that constitute it. The chapter reviews the potential of complex founded policies in practice. Such policies come in three, potentially contradictory, forms. T. Blackman, P. Keenan and M. Coombes have illustrated the use of data flows as a way of describing the changing status of locales within a city. There are Gaian limits, for example on the continued reliance on carborne transport, just as there were Gaian limits imposed on industrial cities by the capacity to remove human waste products from them.
