1. Places can be complex or simplified.
2. Complexity provides a useful criterion for judging contemporary places
   1. complexity and simplicity today
   2. complex and simple intensities
   3. structural and lived complexity
   4. non-linear complexity
   5. complex roles and tragedies
   6. complexity in places and in information theory
   7. complexity and built intricacy
   8. complexity does not demand surprise
   9. complexity and crowded rich places
   10. complexity in discontinuity
3. Why we should welcome and increase complexity
   1. complexity is a positive quality that enriches our inhabitation of places
   2. some degree of complexity is unavoidable in places
   3. complexity suggests strategies for dealing with oversimplified places
4. Terms similar to but not the same as complexity
   1. thick and thin places
   2. dense and diluted places
   3. comparing these terms with complexity

Index
General outline

(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001