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CASA Working Paper 164
CASA Working Paper 164. 1 March 2011. Visually-Driven Urban Simulation: Exploring Fast and Slow Change in Residential Location. We are developing a large scale residential location model of the Greater London region in which all stages of the…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 163
CASA Working Paper 163. 1 March 2011. Visually-Intelligible Land Use Transportation Models for the Rapid Assessment of Urban Futures. We are building a series of fast, visually accessible cross-sectional, hence static urban models for large…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 161
CASA Working Paper 161. 1 November 2010. Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems. There is a growing interest in relating agent-based models to real- world locations by combining them with geographical information systems (GIS) which can be…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 160
CASA Working Paper 160. 1 November 2010. Using Geo-spatial Agent-Based Models for Studying Cities. The agent-based modelling (ABM) paradigm provides a mechanism for understanding the effects of interactions of individuals and through such…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 162
CASA Working Paper 162. 1 November 2010. Geddes' Grand Theory: Life, Evolution, Social Union and the 'Great Transition'. We argue here that Patrick Geddes had a consistent and integrated 'grand theory' which underpinned his ideas on biology,…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 159
CASA Working Paper 159. 1 October 2010. A general Richardson-Lotka- Volterra-reaction diffusion model. A general model is proposed that embraces the separate models - developed in the different traditions of politics and ecology - of Richardson and…
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CASA Working Paper 158
CASA Working Paper 158. 10 August 2010. Exploring the possibility-cone of urban development. It is well known that urban systems are complex and nonlinear and exhibit properties of multiple equilibria and path dependence. This makes model-based…
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CASA Working Paper 157
CASA Working Paper 157. 1 August 2010. Exploring the Historical Determinants of Urban Growth through Cellular Automata. The model presented here is an attempt to bridge a widening gap between theoretical and empirical models of urban growth. It…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 156
CASA Working Paper 156. 1 July 2010. Thermodynamic Potentials and Phase Change for Transport Systems. 'Thermodynamics of the City' (Wilson 2008) poses the question, in relation to the doubly constrained trip distribution model - What is Z?- where Z…
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CASA Working Paper 155
CASA Working Paper 155. 1 July 2010. From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function. The built environment is a significant factor in many urban processes, yet direct measures of built form are seldom…
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