Week 1 Flashcards
what is the defenition of a system
A regulary interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole/ an organized set of doctrines, ideas, or principles intended to explain the arrangement or working of a systamatic whole
What does a system concern
Both physical items and social, economic, or polotical orginizations or practices
By what is the scope of a system defined?
Its boundries, meaning choosing which entities are inside the system and which are outside, i.e. part of envrionment
What is a complex system?
Multiple system that interact with each other
Examples of intrecate social systems
Personal (psychological), Interpersonal, Cultulal, Legal & governmental
Example of a complex system
Cities
What is decision making in urban development based on?
values like health, accessability, money, happiness
What is a generalized measure of a value
Utility (nutsvoorziening)
What is the principle of utility?
That actions are to be judged by their usefulness in this sense: their tendency to produce benefits, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness
What are cities the result of?
Choices of people
Which people make a city?
Individual people, Groups of people, Business, Societies, Governments
How do peoples choices result in cities?
People’s wishes and demands
What are strong values?
Recognizable,values that occur a lot and many people have them
What are wishfull values?
These are the things that are achievable but not often achieved
What are weak values?
those are the things that are difficult to measure like social stability
