Morphological similarities between DBM and an economic geography model of city growth

Titre traduit de la contribution: Morphological similarities between DBM and an economic geography model of city growth

Jean Cavailhès, Pierre Frankhauser, Geoffrey Caruso, Dominique Peesters, Isabelle Thomas, Gilles Vuidel

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Résumé

An urban microeconomic model of households evolving in a 2D cellular automata allows to simulate the growth of a metropolitan area where land is devoted to housing, road network and agricultural/green areas. This system is self-organised: based on individualistic decisions of economic agents who compete on the land market, the model generates a metropolitan area with houses, roads, and agriculture. Several simulation are performed. The results show strong similarities with physical Dieletric breackdown models (DBM). In particular, phase transitions in the urban morphology occur when a control parameter reaches critical values. Population density in our model and the electric potential in DBM play similar roles, which can explain these resemblances.
Titre traduit de la contributionMorphological similarities between DBM and an economic geography model of city growth
langue originaleAnglais
titreComplex Sciences
Sous-titreFirst International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009.
rédacteurs en chefJie Zhou
EditeurSpringer
Pages417-428
ISBN (Electronique)978-3-642-02466-5
ISBN (imprimé)978-3-642-02465-8
étatPublié - 2009
Modification externeOui

Série de publications

NomLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering book series (LNICST)
EditeurSpringer
Volume4

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