Complexity in Urban Development and Management

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Abstract

Systems dynamics, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, and network analyses have been used in population, land use, and transport planning models. An overview of complex systems science as applied to urban development is presented, and examples are given of where the problems of housing people and anticipating their movements have been addressed with complex approaches, sometimes in concert with deterministic, large-scale urban models. Planning for cities today has additional environmental and social priorities in common with many topics that concern industrial ecology. The research agenda suggested here is that this, too, can be enriched with complex systems thinking and models to complement the often static assessment of environmental performance and better inform decision processes.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)214-227
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Industrial Ecology
Volume13
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2009

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