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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Science of Cities and Regions
    sub title: Lectures on Mathematical Model Design
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Alan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 102 p. 31 illus. online resource.
  abstract: A ‘science of cities and regions’ is critical for meeting future challenges. The world is urbanising: huge cities are being created and are continuing to grow rapidly. There are many planning and development issues arising in different manifestations in countries across the globe. These developments can, in principle, be simulated through mathematical computer models which provide tools for forecasting and testing future scenarios and plans. These models can represent the functioning of cities and regions, predicting the spatial demography and the economy, the main flows such as journey to work or to services, and the mechanisms of future evolution. In this book, the main principles involved in the design of this range of models are articulated, providing an account of the current state of the art as well as future research challenges. Alan Wilson has over forty years working with urban and regional models and has contributed important discoveries. He has distilled this experience into what serves as both an introduction and a review of the research frontier. Topics covered include the Lowry model, the retail model, principles of account-based models and the methods rooted in Boltzmann-style statistical modelling and the Lotka-Volterra approach to system evolution. Applications range from urban and regional planning to wars and epidemics.
  table of contents: 1: Models and Systems: The Lowry Model as an Example -- 2: The Retail Model and its Applications -- 3: Wars, Epidemics, Ecology and the Evolution of Spatial Structure: Connecting Models through Generalisation -- 4: Theory -- 5: Methods: The Model-Building Tool Kit -- 6: Adding Dept-1: Spatial Interaction and the Location of Activities -- 7: Adding Depth-2: Structural Dynamics -- 8: Tools for Complexity Science -- 9 Research Challenges.
  note: by Alan Wilson.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Regional economics
  subject:
    topic: Spatial economics
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  subject:
    topic: Regional/Spatial Science
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  classification: G1-922
  classification: 910
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
  identifier: 9789400722668
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2266-8
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