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Jane Jacobs

urban systems; Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Urban theorist and author of 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' (1961), known for systems-level thinking about cities and economic ecosystems.

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Top 100 Systems Thinkers
Rank #53·urban systems; Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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Albert-László Barabási
scale-free networks; Linked.
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Alex Pentland
social physics; reality-mining feedback systems.
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Alicia Juarrero
Dynamics in Action; constraints and complex causality.
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Barry Richmond
Stella software; systems thinking pedagogy.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
fractals; fat-tailed finance.
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Brian Arthur
increasing returns; complexity economics.
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Brian Walker
resilience thinking.
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Buckminster Fuller
synergetics; Spaceship Earth; tensegrity.
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10 May 2026
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