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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xvii+350 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout, unmarked text, no inscriptions/stamps, firm binding. Issued without a dust jacket. --This is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that applies the principles of constructal theory (originally formulated within thermodynamics) to the analysis of social structures, movement patterns, and institutional designs. The volume synthesizes contributions from engineers, sociologists, physicists, and behavioral scientists, all exploring how the evolution of flow systems underpins patterns in both natural and human domains. At the core of the book is the constructal law, which posits that for a flow system to persist over time, it must evolve to provide easier access to the currents that move through it. Bejan's opening chapter lays the theoretical groundwork by demonstrating how this law governs physical, biological and social systems. Patterns of animal locomotion, the layout of settlements, and even the structure of scientific inquiry are presented as examples of evolving flow architectures driven by efficiency and access. Subsequent chapters apply this framework to social processes. Merkx examines two empirical case studies - a 19th-century Argentine railway network and contemporary Mexican migration - to argue that large-scale human movements mirror constructal patterns observed in natural systems. Lorente's chapter on urban design applies tree-flow models to infrastructure development, showing how distributive networks, such as hot water systems or transport grids, evolve to accommodate growing user bases. Reis explores analogies between river basins and human migration, presenting global population flows as structured responses to environmental and institutional resistances. Miguel extends the analysis to crowd movement and epidemic spread, using constructal modeling to examine pedestrian dynamics, bottleneck formation, and contagion pathways. His chapter links optimization of movement to spatial planning and public health preparedness. In a different domain, Périn explores air traffic as a high-order flow system, with spatial and temporal airport traffic patterns analyzed through constructal lenses. Aircraft design and meteorological forecasting are discussed as sub-systems that also conform to optimal flow principles. The book also brings constructal theory into dialogue with core sociological concerns. Tiryakian interrogates how globalization processes and world-system theories resonate with constructal evolution. Staddon's contribution examines whether reinforcement learning in animals follows an optimality trajectory consistent with flow efficiency. Oberschall models conflict resolution using flow charts derived from historical negotiation processes. The volume further expands into demographic modeling (Manton on aging and mortality), social network analysis (Butts on statistical mechanical models), and patterns of segregation (Petrescu-Prahova using discrete exponential models). Jasny's chapter on corporate interlocks explores power structures as flow-constrained configurations, while Morroni considers organizational sustainability through thermoeconomic models and stakeholder flow trees. The last sections address language development (Amoozegar's constructal theory of written systems), evolutionary inequality (Angle's modeling of wealth competition), and cognition (Denaës on constructal interpretations of psyche and consciousness). These contributions highlight constructal theory's applicability beyond physical systems, suggesting its relevance for understanding symbolic, cultural, and institutional evolution. Collectively, the book presents a unified methodological paradigm for interpreting complex social phenomena as evolving flow systems. It offers researchers a set of analytical tools for exploring social dynamics across disciplines such as urban planning, migration studies, sociology of knowledge, behavioral science, and organizational theory.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics brings together for the first time social scientists and engineers to develop a predictive theory of social organization, as a conglomerate of mating flows that morph in time to flow more easily (people, goods, money, energy, information). These flows have objectives (e.g., minimization of effort, travel time, cost), and the objectives clash with global constraints (space, time, resources). The result is organization (flow architecture) derived from one principle of configuration evolution in time (the constructal law): 'for a flow system to persist in time, its configuration must morph such that it provides easier access to its streams.'Constructal theory predicts animal design and geophysical flows, and makes evolution a part of physics. In the social sciences, there is substantial literature based on the use of optima to deduce social, population and economic dynamics. The constructal approach of this book links social sciences with physics, biology and engineering. The book explores the deterministic principle that generates a broad array of patterned phenomena, in demography, geography, communications, hierarchy, and multiple scales. Examples are the distribution of living settlements, the occurrence of flow structure inside each settlement, 'development' as the relation between fast-flowing societies and advancement and wealth, migration patterns, and globalization.Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics is novel and important because it puts the occurrence of social organization on a scientific basis. It brings social organization under the same physics principle that accounts for the generation of flow architecture (design) in geophysical flows, animal design, and engineered flows. This exploratory work adds a dose of determinism to the modeling and predicting of societal flows.…

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Gebunden. Etat : New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Combines for the first time theories of general physics and applies them to social sciencesOffers a new way to look at social phenomena as part of natural phenomenaA new domain of application of engineering such as thermodynamic optimizatio.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics brings together for the first time social scientists and engineers to develop a predictive theory of social organization, as a conglomerate of mating flows that morph in time to flow more easily (people, goods, money, energy, information). These flows have objectives (e.g., minimization of effort, travel time, cost), and the objectives clash with global constraints (space, time, resources). The result is organization (flow architecture) derived from one principle of configuration evolution in time (the constructal law): 'for a flow system to persist in time, its configuration must morph such that it provides easier access to its streams.'Constructal theory predicts animal design and geophysical flows, and makes evolution a part of physics. In the social sciences, there is substantial literature based on the use of optima to deduce social, population and economic dynamics. The constructal approach of this book links social sciences with physics, biology and engineering. The book explores the deterministic principle that generates a broad array of patterned phenomena, in demography, geography, communications, hierarchy, and multiple scales. Examples are the distribution of living settlements, the occurrence of flow structure inside each settlement, 'development' as the relation between fast-flowing societies and advancement and wealth, migration patterns, and globalization.Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics is novel and important because it puts the occurrence of social organization on a scientific basis. It brings social organization under the same physics principle that accounts for the generation of flow architecture (design) in geophysical flows, animal design, and engineered flows. This exploratory work adds a dose of determinism to the modeling and predicting of societal flows. 368 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics brings together for the first time social scientists and engineers who present predictive theory of social organization, as a conglomerate of mating flows that morph in time to flow more easily. The book offers a new way to look at social phenomena as part of natural phenomena, and examines a new domain of application of engineering such as thermodynamic optimization, thermoeconomics and 'design as science'. 372 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Constructal Law in Nature and Society.- Constructal Models in Social Processes.- Tree Flow Networks in Urban Design.- Natural Flow Patterns and Structured People Dynamics: A Constructal View.- Constructal Pattern Formation in Nature, Pedestrian Motion, and Epidemics Propagation.- The Constructal Nature of the Air Traffic System.- Sociological Theory, Constructal Theory, and Globalization.- Is Animal Learning Optimal .- Conflict and Conciliation Dynamics.- Human Aging and Mortality.- Statistical Mechanical Models for Social Systems.- Discrete Exponential Family Models for Ethnic Residential Segregation.- Corporate Interlock.- Constructal Approach to Company Sustainability.- The Inequality Process Is an Evolutionary Process.- Constructal Theory of Written Language.- Life and Cognition.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 372 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Constructal Law in Nature and Society.- Constructal Models in Social Processes.- Tree Flow Networks in Urban Design.- Natural Flow Patterns and Structured People Dynamics: A Constructal View.- Constructal Pattern Formation in Nature, Pedestrian Motion, and Epidemics Propagation.- The Constructal Nature of the Air Traffic System.- Sociological Theory, Constructal Theory, and Globalization.- Is Animal Learning Optimal .- Conflict and Conciliation Dynamics.- Human Aging and Mortality.- Statistical Mechanical Models for Social Systems.- Discrete Exponential Family Models for Ethnic Residential Segregation.- Corporate Interlock.- Constructal Approach to Company Sustainability.- The Inequality Process Is an Evolutionary Process.- Constructal Theory of Written Language.- Life and Cognition.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 368 pp. Englisch.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics brings together for the first time social scientists and engineers to develop a predictive theory of social organization, as a conglomerate of mating flows that morph in time to flow more easily (people, goods, money, energy, information). These flows have objectives (e.g., minimization of effort, travel time, cost), and the objectives clash with global constraints (space, time, resources). The result is organization (flow architecture) derived from one principle of configuration evolution in time (the constructal law): 'for a flow system to persist in time, its configuration must morph such that it provides easier access to its streams.'Constructal theory predicts animal design and geophysical flows, and makes evolution a part of physics. In the social sciences, there is substantial literature based on the use of optima to deduce social, population and economic dynamics. The constructal approach of this book links social sciences with physics, biology and engineering. The book explores the deterministic principle that generates a broad array of patterned phenomena, in demography, geography, communications, hierarchy, and multiple scales. Examples are the distribution of living settlements, the occurrence of flow structure inside each settlement, 'development' as the relation between fast-flowing societies and advancement and wealth, migration patterns, and globalization.Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics is novel and important because it puts the occurrence of social organization on a scientific basis. It brings social organization under the same physics principle that accounts for the generation of flow architecture (design) in geophysical flows, animal design, and engineered flows. This exploratory work adds a dose of determinism to the modeling and predicting of societal flows.…