The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems

InhaltsangabeFifty Years of Urban Modeling: Macro-Statics to Micro-Dynamics.- Complexity: The Integrating Framework for Models of Urban and Regional Systems.- Ontogeny and Ontology in Complex Systems Modeling.- A Model for Asystematic Mobility in Urban Space.- Preliminary Results of a Multi-Agent Traffic Simulation for Berlin.- Hybrid Geographical Models of Urban Spatial Structure and Behavior.- Two Complexities and a Few Models.- Cities as Evolutionary Systems in Random Media.- Grilling the Grid: a Non-Ultimate (nor Objective) Report on the Configurational Approach to Urban Phenomena.- Validating and Calibrating Integrated Cellular Automata Based Models of Land Use Change.- Fractal Geometry for Measuring and Modeling Urban Patterns.- The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: Theory and Application of the STASA-Model Within the Scatter Project.- Study of Urban Developers' Behavior in a Game Environment.- Self-Organization and Optimization of Pedestrian and Vehicle Traffic in Urban Environments.- Multidimensional Events in Multilevel Systems.- The Simulation of Spatial Change: What Relation Between Knowledge and Modeling? A Proposal and Its Application.- A Structural-Cognitive Approach to Urban Simulation Models.- The Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Systems of Cities and Innovation Processes: a Multi-Level Model.- The Great Return of Large Scale Urban Models: Revival or "Renaissance"?-The Multi-Agent Simulation of the Economic and Spatial Dynamics of a Poli-Necleated Urban Area.- Modeling the Micro-Dynamics of Urban Systems with Continuum Valued Cellular Automata.- Multiplicative Processes and City Sizes.- The Fundamental Features and Encountered Challenge of China's Urbanization.- Introduction to Simulating Methodology of Urban Systems.