Modeling cities and regions as complex systems : from theory to planning applications /

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Author / Creator:	White, Roger, 1941 December 1- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusettes : MIT Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (354 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	City planning. Regional planning. City planning. Regional planning.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11548779

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Other authors / contributors:	Engelen, Guy, author. Uljee, Inge, editor.
ISBN:	9780262331388 0262331381 9780262331371 0262331373 9780262029568 0262029561
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 29, 2018).
Summary:	"Cities and regions grow (or occasionally decline), and continuously transform themselves as they do so. This book describes the theory and practice of modeling the spatial dynamics of urban growth and transformation. As cities are complex, adaptive, self-organizing systems, the most appropriate modeling framework is one based on the theory of self-organizing systems -an approach already used in such fields as physics and ecology. The book presents a series of models, most of them developed using cellular automata (CA), which are inherently spatial and computationally efficient. It also provides discussions of the theoretical, methodological, and philosophical issues that arise from the models. A case study illustrates the use of these models in urban and regional planning. Finally, the book presents a new, dynamic theory of urban spatial structure that emerges from the models and their applications. The models are primarily land use models, but the more advanced ones also show the dynamics of population and economic activities, and are integrated with models in other domains such as economics, demography, and transportation. The result is a rich and realistic representation of the spatial dynamics of a variety of urban phenomena. The book is unique in its coverage of both the general issues associated with complex self-organizing systems and the specifics of designing and implementing models of such systems."--
Other form:	Print version: White, Roger, 1941 December 1- Modeling cities and regions as complex systems : from theory to planning applications. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, ©2015 330 pages 9780262029568

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Theory and consequences
Approaches to modeling cities and regions
Urban systems and spatial competition
The fractal forms of land use patterns
Urban and regional land use dynamics : understanding the process by means of cellular automaton-based models
The bigger picture : integrated multi-scale models
The cellular automaton eats the regions : unified modeling of activities and land use in a variable grid cellular automaton
Issues of calibration, validation, and methodology
Emerging theory
Modeling in support of spatial planning and policy-making : the example of Flanders
Paths to the future
References
Index.

Modeling cities and regions as complex systems : from theory to planning applications /

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