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Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
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This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in
better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities
have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and
will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the
century. This "urban transition" that has totally transformed the
way we inhabit the planet is globally understood in its
socio-economic rationales but is less frequently questioned as a
spatio-temporal process. However, the cities, because they are
intrinsically linked in a game of competition for resources and
development, self organize in "systems of cities" where their
future becomes more and more interdependent. The high frequency and
intensity of interactions between cities explain that urban systems
all over the world exhibit large similarities in their hierarchical
and functional structure and rather regular dynamics. They are
complex systems whose emergence, structure and further evolution
are widely governed by the multiple kinds of interaction that link
the various actors and institutions investing in cities their
efforts, capital, knowledge and intelligence. Simulation models
that reconstruct this dynamics may help in better understanding it
and exploring future plausible evolutions of urban systems. This
would provide better insight about how societies can manage the
ecological transition at local, regional and global scales. The
author has developed a series of instruments that greatly improve
the techniques of validation for such models of social sciences
that can be submitted to many applications in a variety of
geographical situations. Examples are given for several BRICS
countries, Europe and United States. The target audience primarily
comprises research experts in the field of urban dynamics, but the
book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
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