A 'science of cities and regions' is critical for meeting future
challenges. The world is urbanising: huge cities are being created
and are continuing to grow rapidly. There are many planning and
development issues arising in different manifestations in countries
across the globe. These developments can, in principle, be
simulated through mathematical computer models which provide tools
for forecasting and testing future scenarios and plans. These
models can represent the functioning of cities and regions,
predicting the spatial demography and the economy, the main flows
such as journey to work or to services, and the mechanisms of
future evolution. In this book, the main principles involved in the
design of this range of models are articulated, providing an
account of the current state of the art as well as future research
challenges.
Alan Wilson has over forty years working with urban and regional
models and has contributed important discoveries. He has distilled
this experience into what serves as both an introduction and a
review of the research frontier. Topics covered include the Lowry
model, the retail model, principles of account-based models and the
methods rooted in Boltzmann-style statistical modelling and the
Lotka-Volterra approach to system evolution. Applications range
from urban and regional planning to wars and epidemics.
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