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The conceptual difficulties of modelling human systems are briefly discussed, contrasting the new methods emerging from the theory of self-organizing systems with the descriptive methods usually used. A generic model of an urban system is described and its behaviour explored.
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Allen, P.M., Sanglier, M., Engelen, G. (1984). Chance and Necessity in Urban Systems. In: Schuster, P. (eds) Stochastic Phenomena and Chaotic Behaviour in Complex Systems. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69591-9_20
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