Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Complexity and Spatial Planning: Introducing Systems, Assemblages and Simulations -- Part I: Theoretical Reflections Bridging Complexity and Planning -- 2 Baroque Complexity: 'If Things were Simple, Word Would Have Gotten Round' -- 3 Planning in Complexity -- 4 Transformative Practice as an Exploration of Possibility Spaces -- Part II: Complex Systems and Planning, in between the Real and the Relative -- 5 Complexity Theories of Cities: First, Second or Third Culture of Planning? -- 6 Spatial Planning, Complexity and a World 'Out of Equilibrium': Outline of a Non-linear Approach to Planning -- 7 Complexity and Transition Management -- 8 Coevolutionary Planning Processes -- 9 Climate Adaptation in Complex Governance Systems: Governance Systems between Inertia and Adaptability -- 10 Beyond Blueprints? Complexity Theory as a Prospective Influence for Metropolitan Governance -- 11 Considering Complex Systems: The Implications of the Complexity Frame of Reference for Planning -- Part III: Assemblage and a Relational Attitude to Planning -- 12 A Different View of Relational Complexity. Imagining Places through the Deleuzean Social Cartography -- 13 On the Emergence of Agency in Participatory Strategic Planning -- 14 Population Thinking in Architecture -- 15 Coevolving Adaptive and Power Networks: Collective Leadership for Effective Planning -- Part IV: Simulating in between the Real and the Ideal -- 16 The Metaverse as Lab to Experiment with Problems of Organized Complexity -- 17 The Use of Agent-Based Modeling for Studying the Social and Physical Environment of Cities -- 18 Building Mega-Models for Megacities -- Index.