Urban Dynamics And Simulation Models (lecture Notes In Morphogenesis)
by Denise Pumain /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.