Cities Growth Page

Summary

Do foraging animals and growing cities utilize resources in the same way? We're interested in building an agent-based model which generates a road network on a map of varying resources by following a set of simple, probabilistic rules. How do the properties of this network evolve through time? How much of city growth can be explained by resource constraints? Do simple rules of growth parallel simple rules of animal foraging behavior? This project will explore agent-based modeling, but will also present opportunities to examine the limits of modeling.

Groups Members

Alberto
Alex (brummera@email.arizona.edu
Bernardo (bernardo.furtado@ipea.gov.br)
Claire (lagesse.claire at gmail.com)
Diana (dianalg11@gmail.com)
Ernest Liu (yu.liu@math.uu.se)
James
Michael Kalyuzhny (michael.kalyuzhny at mail.huji.ac.il)
Morgan
Rohan (rsmehta at stanford dot edu)

Meetings

Tuesday 17 : 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday 18 : 9:00 am - 12:00 am

done :

Thursday 12 : 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Monday 16 : 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm

References

File:Quick Literature Review on Growth of Cities.pdf

Ongoing work

• Create a wiki page ! (Claire)

• Write the research question (Morgan)

'''Prospective'''

• Find more references (Claire & Rohan)
• Overview of the NetLogo models libraries (Ernest)
• Overview of Aaron's model (Rohan)
• Overview of Alfred's experiment model (Alex)
• Overview of Slim mold model (Michael & Ernest)

'''Data'''

• List & Upload data on the Dropbox (Claire)
• Historical Maps of Santa Fe (Alex)

• Think about the processes we want to model in the foraging perspective (Diana & Michael)

• Think about the models which could be relevant (Ernest, Claire, Bernardo, Alberto, Morgan, Rohan)