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Designing is an anticipatory activity, directed toward creating the new and altering and improving what currently exists. Anticipating future states requires that designers and planners grasp and work with the tangible realities of the present. And, in order to understand these present realities, they must first represent them, structuring a representation that allows a preferred plan or design to be developed. Because the complexities of the real world defy a complete rendering, representations are, of necessity, a selected view or abstraction of actual conditions.
How can a simulation ever tell us anything that we do not already know? It is typical of many kinds of design problems that the inner system consists of components whose fundamental laws of behavior—mechanical electrical or chemical—are all well known. The difficulty of the design problem often resides in predicting how an assemblage of such components will behave.
—Herbert Simon (1978)
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Clipson, C. (1993). Simulation for Planning and Design. In: Marans, R.W., Stokols, D. (eds) Environmental Simulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1140-7_2
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