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Development Of An Agent Based Urban Simulation Model, Donghan Kim

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

Since the pioneering work of Lowry in the 1960s, many urban models has developed to understand how urban systems work and change. Early urban models tend to focus on the relationship and interaction between land use and transportation. Yet, recent urban models pay more attention to urban morphology with an interest on self-organising nature of urban systems. Agent based urban modelling approach is gaining popularity as a new means to study an urban systems in this context. The methodology has roots in the natural science field such as the complexity science, but it also provides meaningful insights for social systems …