Can Pakistan have creative cities? An agent based modeling approach with preliminary application to Karachi
Resource information
Date of publication
Décembre 2012
ISBN / Resource ID
127992
Pages
31 pages
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The form and function of many cities are increasingly marred by congestion, sprawl and socioeconomic segregation, preventing them from experiencing expected productivity gains associated with urbanization. We operationalize these insights by creating a stylized agent-based model of a theoretical city, inspired by social complexity theory and the new urban literature.
