CASA Working Paper 37

Urban Modelling as Storytelling: Using Simulation Models as a Narrative

This article examines the distinctions between empirical and simulation models using the metaphors of argument and narrative. It argues that all argumentation is contextualized within a narrative that is either inferred or communicated.

The paper provides another semantic structure for urban models that applies elements of systemsdynamic method to construct "stories" of the past and possible futures of communities in a watershed in southern Arizona. By constructing such narratives this paper demonstrates how computer-based urban models can "tell a story".

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Authors: Subhrajit Guhathakurta

Publication Date: 1/9/2001

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