Abstract
The above FACS models and their results were based, as we have seen, on a simple representation of city geometry: a square grid of elementary units — ‘houses’, each containing one agent only. The neighborhood of a house in FACS is a 5 × 5 square with the house at its center. The city’s infrastructure is considered in the model as a three-level hierarchy of (a) houses, (b) geometrically identical overlapping neighborhoods, and (c) the city as a whole. Such a representation of urban geometry is obviously problematic and can qualitatively influence the outcomes of the simulations, especially if we want to weight them against real-world situations. In this chapter we report on our first attempt to introduce into our FACS models a real-world heterogeneity of the city’s infrastructure, and to investigate the possible consequences of this new type of modeling.
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Portugali, J. (2000). From CA- to GIS-City. In: Self-Organization and the City. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04099-7_10
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