The document summarizes an urban growth simulation model built using cellular automata. It allows users to design road networks which drive urban expansion as built and unbuilt cells interact according to programmed rules. The model simulates self-organized growth of urban fabric and the growth rate decreases as available space becomes saturated. Instructions are provided to open the Netlogo model file and run simulations by drawing roads. A second model called Cities CORE is also summarized, which simulates comprehensive city creation through automatic landscape generation and user-directed development.
3. This model simulates the self-organized growth of
the urban fabric, in terms of built and un-built cells.
Roads are included, as the drivers of the urban
expansion. The model is based on cellular automata.
The growth is logistic, so that the growth rate
decreases when the built area saturates the available
space. Users are allowed to design the roads network
and to establish the rules for the cells interaction
Author:
Ferdinando Semboloni, researcher and teacher, Department
of town and regional planning, University of Florence
http://fs.urba.arch.unifi.it/en/home.php.html
4. Use Netlogo 4.0.4 to open the model:
Models1.UrbanGrowthcellAut.nlogo
Draw some roads
5. Run the model
6. is a highly complex model, which
simulates land-usage and growth
patterns of cities.
The Cities CORE model provides
capabilities for comprehensive city
creation, both by generating urban
landscapes automatically from
seeds, and by user-directed
development that enables
interactivity in the city creation
process.
in http://ccl.northwestern.edu/cities/#cities-core
7. Developed by Northwestern's Center for
Connected Learning and Computer-Based
Modelling (CCL) @ Northwestern University
The CCL is a research group headed by Prof.
Uri Wilensky. It was founded in 1995 at Tufts
University and relocated to Northwestern
University in 2000.
8. Unzip the model from
Models2.Citiescities.zip
Use Netlogo 4.0.4 to open the model:
Models2.CitiescitiesCities.nlogo
10. Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP)
Agents-based modelling for processes and dynamics in
landscape geography
17 February until 2 March 2013
At AGROCAMPUS OUEST ANGERS - France