Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure Agent-based Modelling of the Dynamics in Nanjing /

• Main Authors: Liu, Helin (Author), Silva, Elisabete A. (Author), Wang, Qian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Subjects: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Urban geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic growth. Yet, accompanying with China&...

Table of Contents:

• The Development of Creative Industries and Urban Land Use: Introduction.-The development of creative industries and urban land use: revisit the interactions from complexity perspective
• Application of agent-based modelling to the dynamics of creative industries’ interactions with urban land use: an introduction
• The foundation for agent-based modelling: empirical evidence of creative industries’ interactions with urban land use in Nanjing
• Simulating the dynamics of creative industries’ interactions with urban land use by agent-based modelling
• Model validation and scenario analysis
• Examining the dynamics by incorporating GIS data with the CID-USST model
• Conclusions and further development
• Appendix
• Index .