Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models

This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end

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Denise Pumain Romain Reuillon

Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models

Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis Series editor Alessandro Sarti, CAMS Center for Mathematics, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France e-mail: [email protected]

More information about this series athttp://www.springer.com/series/11247

Denise Pumain Romain Reuillon •

Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models Guillaume Chérel  Clémentine Cottineau Robin Cura  Mathieu Leclaire Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq Clara Schmitt  Elfie Swerts

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Denise Pumain Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and UMR Géographie-Cités Paris France

ISSN 2195-1934 Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis ISBN 978-3-319-46495-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46497-8

Romain Reuillon CNRS, UMR Géographie-Cités and Institut des Systèmes Complexes Paris-Ile-de-France Paris France

ISSN 2195-1942

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ISBN 978-3-319-46497-8

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Acknowledgements

That research was supported by the advanced grant GeoDiverCity of the European Research Council.

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Contents

1 Is Urban Future Predictable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Generic Dynamic Features of Systems of Cities . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 The Hierarchical Differentiation of City Sizes . . . . . . 1.2.2 The Meta-Stability of Urban Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.3 A Regular Quasi-stochastic Process of Growth . . . . . 1.2.4 Hierarchical Diffusion of Innovation Waves and Functional Specializations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Variety in the Evolution of Urban Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.1 A Simplified Ty