Urban Dynamics And Simulation Models

Author : Denise Pumain,Romain Reuillon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319464978

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Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models by Denise Pumain,Romain Reuillon Pdf

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.

Author : M.H. Whithed,R.M. Sarly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120221432

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Urban Simulation: Models for Public Policy Analysis by M.H. Whithed,R.M. Sarly Pdf

Recognizing that "our present processes of urban community development programs were wasteful and destructive and that our existing urban development programs were contributing to that waste and destruction",l the U. S. Congress enacted the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 with the stated objective "the development of a national urban growth policy". The most inno 2 vative portion of this legislation was Title VII of this Act which authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to guarantee loans of up to $50 million to public or private developers of new communities. The Congress looked towards new communities as a strategy to avoid the continuing problems of increased, unplanned urban growth and the associated inefficient and wasteful use of land resources, pollution of air and water, inefficient and expensive public services and facilities and segregation of people by 3 income and race • The Office of New Communities Development (ONCD) was established in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a strong new communities program.

Author : Marius Thériault,François Des Rosiers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118601655

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Modeling Urban Dynamics by Marius Thériault,François Des Rosiers Pdf

The field of Urban Dynamics itself is based on the systems engineering concept that all complex systems (and cities and urban areas are no exception) are comprised of independent and often smaller, more understandable sub-components with relationships to one another. This allows for the system as a whole to be modeled, using knowledge of the individual subsystems and their behaviors. In this instance, urban dynamics allows for the modeling and understanding of land use, the attractiveness of space to residents, and how the ageing and obsolescence of buildings affects planning and economic development, as well as population movements, with the urban landscape. The book adopts a trans-disciplinary approach that looks at the way residential mobility, commuting patterns, and travel behavior affect the urban form. It addresses a series of issues dealing with the accessibility of urban amenities, quality of life, and assessment of landscape residential choices, as well as measurement of external factors in the urban environment and their impact on property values.

Author : Itzhak Benenson,Paul Torrens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0470843497

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Geosimulation by Itzhak Benenson,Paul Torrens Pdf

Geosimulation is hailed as ‘the next big thing’ in geographic modelling for urban studies. This book presents readers with an overview of this new and innovative field by introducing the spatial modelling environment and describing the latest research and development using cellular automata and multi-agent systems. Extensive case studies and working code is available from an associated website which demonstrate the technicalities of geosimulation, and provide readers with the tools to carry out their own modelling and testing. The first book to treat urban geosimulation explicitly, integrating socio-economic and environmental modelling approaches Provides the reader with a sound theoretical base in the science of geosimulation as well as applied material on the construction of geosimulation models Cross-references to an author-maintained associated website with downloadable working code for readers to apply the models presented in the book Visit the Author's Website for further information on Geosimulation, Geographic Automata Systems and Geographic Automata Software http://www.geosimulationbook.com

Author : Juan Martín García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1687008361

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Modeling the Housing and Urban Dynamics by Juan Martín García Pdf

INDEX OF PAPERS Paper 1. Evaluating Electric Vehicle Diffusion Paper 2. Modeling Housing, and Urban Infrastructures Paper 3. Modeling and Simulating Traffic Jams Paper 4. Road Infrastructure Investment Paper 5. Management of the Gravel Road Maintenance Paper 6. Critical Infrastructure Protection Paper 7. Modeling Waste from Home Devices Paper 8. Scenario Planning Workshop Paper 9. Group Model Building Paper 10. Global Container Multimodal Transport Paper 11. Gamification and Project Management Paper 12. Business Dynamics Simulator for Business Schools Paper 13. Socio-Economic Simulations of Ordinary Waste Paper 14. Perception and Utility INDEX OF MODELS FOR BEGINNERS 1. Population Growth 2. A Catastrophe Study 3. The Young Ambitious Worker 4. Development of an Epidemic 5. The Barays of Angkor 6. Building Games and Learning Labs 7. Input Output Controls 8. Sensitivity Analysis COLLECTION OF BOOKS Selected papers on System Dynamics 1.Agriculture and food production ISBN: 9781686984570 2.Business ISBN: 9781686997556 3.Ecology and the environment ISBN: 9781687000323 4.Economy: money and finances ISBN: 9781687003133 5.Energy ISBN: 9781687004932 6.Healthcare ISBN: 9781687006745 7.Housing and urban dynamics ISBN: 9781687008367 8.Supply chain and industrial dynamics ISBN: 9781687009975 9.Labor, human resources and social ISBN: 9781687015389 10.Sustainable development ISBN: 9781700341600 Detailed content in http://atc-innova.com/papers.htm ABOUT THE AUTHOR Juan Martin Garcia, expert in System Dynamics and System Thinking, Ph. D. Industrial Engineer UPC (Spain) and Postgraduate Diploma in Business Dynamics at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). He has been teacher of building simulation models during twenty years in several universities and now he teaches the online courses of Vensim in http://vensim.com/vensim-online-courses/

Author : Shih-Kung Lai,Haoying Han
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317004004

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Urban Complexity and Planning by Shih-Kung Lai,Haoying Han Pdf

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban development process. This 'bottom up' approach to urban modeling not only transforms our understanding of cities, but also improves our capabilities of harnessing the urban development process. For example, we used to think that plans control urban development in an aggregate, holistic way, but what actually happens is that plans only affect differentiated actors in seeking their goals through information. In other words, plans and regulations set restrictions or incentives of individual behaviour in the urban development process through imposing rights, information, and prices, and the analysis of the effects of plans and regulations must take into account the complex urban dynamics at a disaggregate level of the urban development process. Computer simulations provide a rigorous, promising analytic tool that serves as a supplement to the traditional, mathematical approach to depicting complex urban dynamics. Based on the emergent paradigm of complexity, the book provides an innovative set of arguments about how we can gain a better understanding of how cities emerge and function through computer simulations, and how plans affect the evolution of complex urban systems in a way distinct from what we used to think they should. Empirical case studies focus on the development of a compact urban hierarchy in Taiwan, China, and the USA, but derive more generalizable principles and relationships among cities, complexity, and planning.

Author : C.S. Bertuglia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317829393

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Urban Dynamics by C.S. Bertuglia Pdf

Originally published in 1990, this work analyses the use of contemporary computer models to simulate urban systems. The work deals with the two significant traditions of model-building: firstly the building of integrated models following the seminal research of Lowry first published in 1964, but with relatively simple submodels; and secondly, intensive research on particular submodels with a variety of techniques. This volume constructs a model-building exercise which integrates the two traditions: an integrated model (in a modular form with alternative components) using the most advanced submodels. The book concludes with a presentation of an example of an operational model of this type.

Author : Shih-Kung Lai,Haoying Han
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317003991

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Urban Complexity and Planning by Shih-Kung Lai,Haoying Han Pdf

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban development process. This 'bottom up' approach to urban modeling not only transforms our understanding of cities, but also improves our capabilities of harnessing the urban development process. For example, we used to think that plans control urban development in an aggregate, holistic way, but what actually happens is that plans only affect differentiated actors in seeking their goals through information. In other words, plans and regulations set restrictions or incentives of individual behaviour in the urban development process through imposing rights, information, and prices, and the analysis of the effects of plans and regulations must take into account the complex urban dynamics at a disaggregate level of the urban development process. Computer simulations provide a rigorous, promising analytic tool that serves as a supplement to the traditional, mathematical approach to depicting complex urban dynamics. Based on the emergent paradigm of complexity, the book provides an innovative set of arguments about how we can gain a better understanding of how cities emerge and function through computer simulations, and how plans affect the evolution of complex urban systems in a way distinct from what we used to think they should. Empirical case studies focus on the development of a compact urban hierarchy in Taiwan, China, and the USA, but derive more generalizable principles and relationships among cities, complexity, and planning.

Author : Bin Jiang,Xiaobai Yao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048185726

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Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics by Bin Jiang,Xiaobai Yao Pdf

A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first emerged as a distinct theme within geography’s quantitative revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for measuring spatial correlation. The concept of spatial au- correlation took pride of place, mirroring concerns in time-series analysis about similar kinds of dependence known to distort the standard probability theory used to derive appropriate statistics. Early applications of spatial correlation tended to reflect geographical patterns expressed as points. The perspective taken on such analytical thinking was founded on induction, the search for pattern in data with a view to suggesting appropriate hypotheses which could subsequently be tested. In parallel but using very different techniques came the development of a more deductive style of analysis based on modelling and thence simulation. Here the focus was on translating prior theory into forms for generating testable predictions whose outcomes could be compared with observations about some system or phenomenon of interest. In the intervening years, spatial analysis has broadened to embrace both inductive and deductive approaches, often combining both in different mixes for the variety of problems to which it is now applied.

Author : Walter W. Schroeder
Publisher : Wright Allen Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0262191709

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Readings in Urban Dynamics by Walter W. Schroeder Pdf

Author : Jim Duggan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319340432

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System Dynamics Modeling with R by Jim Duggan Pdf

This new interdisciplinary work presents system dynamics as a powerful approach to enable analysts build simulation models of social systems, with a view toward enhancing decision making. Grounded in the feedback perspective of complex systems, the book provides a practical introduction to system dynamics, and covers key concepts such as stocks, flows, and feedback. Societal challenges such as predicting the impact of an emerging infectious disease, estimating population growth, and assessing the capacity of health services to cope with demographic change can all benefit from the application of computer simulation. This text explains important building blocks of the system dynamics approach, including material delays, stock management heuristics, and how to model effects between different systemic elements. Models from epidemiology, health systems, and economics are presented to illuminate important ideas, and the R programming language is used to provide an open-source and interoperable way to build system dynamics models. System Dynamics Modeling with R also describes hands-on techniques that can enhance client confidence in system dynamic models, including model testing, model analysis, and calibration. Developed from the author’s course in system dynamics, this book is written for undergraduate and postgraduate students of management, operations research, computer science, and applied mathematics. Its focus is on the fundamental building blocks of system dynamics models, and its choice of R as a modeling language make it an ideal reference text for those wishing to integrate system dynamics modeling with related data analytic methods and techniques.

Author : Jason Papathanasiou,Georgios Tsaples,Anastasia Blouchoutzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030670171

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Urban Sustainability by Jason Papathanasiou,Georgios Tsaples,Anastasia Blouchoutzi Pdf

This textbook provides an innovative pedagogy to students who will be the policy makers of tomorrow. It provides thoughts on sustainability and the complexity among its different dimensions. It guides students through experience, processes of complex decision making, and sharpen their clarity of thought, to enhance their communication abilities and help them develop critical thinking. It provides key competencies to address the complexities of sustainable development. By combining game-based learning with an analytical style of education, supplemental materials are provided to make the definitions of various sustainability aspects more concrete and allows students to experiment in a consequence-free environment, with scenario examples. Board Game and ahypothetical management course, dealing with various topics like transportation sustainability, societal metabolism, etc. as well as with decision making under those contexts, will formalize the mathematics needed to make robust decisions.

Author : Sergio Albeverio,Denise Andrey,Paolo Giordano,Alberto Vancheri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790819373

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The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems by Sergio Albeverio,Denise Andrey,Paolo Giordano,Alberto Vancheri Pdf

This book contains the contributions presented at the international workshop "The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: an interdisciplinary approach" held in Ascona, Switzerland in November 2004. Experts from several disciplines outline a conceptual framework for modeling and forecasting the dynamics of both growth-limited cities and megacities. Coverage reflects the various interdependencies between structural and social development.

Author : Robert E. Pugh
Publisher : Washington : Information Resources Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Computers
ISBN : WISC:89033915794

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Evaluation of Policy Simulation Models by Robert E. Pugh Pdf

Author : Stefan Müller Arisona,Gideon Aschwanden,Jan Halatsch,Peter Wonka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642297588

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Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation by Stefan Müller Arisona,Gideon Aschwanden,Jan Halatsch,Peter Wonka Pdf

This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.