Urban complexity and planning
Subtitle: theories and computer simulations
By: by Shih-Kung Lai and Haoying Han
Contributors: Haoying, Han
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754679189; 9780754698166
Subjects: Cities and towns; Computer programs; City planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Foreword / by Michael Batty; title: Foreword / by Lew Hopkins; title: Foreword / by Chris Webster; title: Preface; title: From organized anarchy to controlled structure : effects of planning on the garbage-can decision processes; title: Effects of planning on the garbage-can decision processes : a reformulation and extension; title: A spatial garbage can model; title: An agent-based approach to comparing institutional and spatial changes in the self-organizing city; title: On traction rules of complex structures in one-dimensional cellular automata: some implications for urban change; title: Applying cellular automata to simulate spatial game interactions to investigate effects of planning; title: Planning for city safety and creativity : two metaphors; title: Emergent macro-structures of path-dependent location adoptions processes of firms; title: The formation of urban settlement systems: computer experiments and mathematical proofs of the increasing returns approach to power law; title: Power law distribution of human settlements : an explanation based on increasing returns; title: A preliminary exploration on self-organized criticality of urban spatial complex systems; title: Planning in complex spatial and temporal systems : a simulation framework; title: Decision network : a planning tool for making multiple, linked decisions; title: Effectiveness of plans in the face of complexity.