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

• "Cities" group

Claire (lagesse.claire at gmail.com)
Bernardo (bernardo.furtado@ipea.gov.br)
File:Quick Literature Review on Growth of Cities.pdf
Hiroshi (hashika1@jhmi.edu)
Alex (brummera@email.arizona.edu

• "Foraging" group

Diana (dianalg11@gmail.com)
Michael Kalyuzhny (michael.kalyuzhny at mail.huji.ac.il)
Rohan (rsmehta at stanford dot edu)
Ernest Liu (yu.liu@math.uu.se)

Meetings

Thursday 12   6:00 pm -  7:00 pm   

  Monday 16   2:30 pm -  4:15 pm   

 Tuesday 17   3:00 pm -  5:00 pm   

Wednesday 18 9:00 am - 12:00 am