A cellular automata intraurban model with prices and income-differentiated actors
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2012
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Furtado, B.
Ettema, D.
Ruiz, R.
Hurkens, J.
van Delden, H.
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Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2012; 39(5):897-924
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Bernardo Alves Furtado, Dick Ettema, Ricardo Machado Ruiz, Jelle Hurkens, Hedwig van Delden
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This paper presents an intraurban cellular automata model that is an extension to White and Engelen’s pioneering model. The paper’s main contribution is to distinguish between agglomerative effects, determined by the attraction of the neighbourhood, and disagglomerative effects, driven by land prices, or land affordability. In order to do that, social heterogeneity is introduced in the model at the intraurban level. As a result, we can simulate both the evolution of land use and land prices. An application of the model and a sensitivity analysis indicate that neighborhood influence is the main driving force of cities’ spatial configurations. Prices, however, exert an important countereffect. Actually, the higher the influence of land prices, the faster land succession is observed. Finally, an important conclusion of the model is that intraurban models should not fail to differentiate actors by income level.
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