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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: White, Roger, 1941 December 1- (Author), Engelen, Guy (Author), Uljee, Inge (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
Subjects:
City planning.
Regional planning.
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.