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Complex Artificial Environments

Simulation, Cognition and VR in the Study and Planning of Cities

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Juval Portugali

    1. Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Environmental Simulation Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-6
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  2. Introduction

    • Juval Portugali
    Pages 1-6

  3. General aspects of Complex Artificial Environments

    1. The Scope of Complex Artificial Environments

      • Juval Portugali
      Pages 9-29

    2. Recognition of Natural and Artificial Environments by Computers: Commonalities and Differences

      • Hermann Haken
      Pages 31-48

    3. Visualization in Spatial Modeling

      • Michael Batty, Philip Steadman, Yichun Xie
      Pages 49-70

    4. Transferring Concepts for Urban Modeling: Capture or Exchange?

      • Denise Pumain
      Pages 71-82

  5. Urban simulation models

    1. Geosimulation and its Application to Urban Growth Modeling

      • Paul M. Torrens
      Pages 119-136

    2. Geographic Automata Systems and the OBEUS Software for Their Implementation

      • Itzhak Benenson, Slava Birfur, Vlad Kharbash
      Pages 137-153

    3. The CityDev Project: An Interactive Multi-agent Urban Model on the Web

      • Ferdinando Semboloni
      Pages 155-163

    4. Modeling Multi-scale Processes in a Cellular Automata Framework

      • Roger White
      Pages 165-177

  7. Planning

    1. Planning and Designing with People

      • Michael Kwartler
      Pages 275-306

    2. Planning Support Systems Evolving: When the Rubber Hits the Road

      • Richard K. Brail
      Pages 307-317
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About this book

Juval Portugali The notion of complex artificial environments (CAE) refers to theories of c- plexity and self-organization, as well as to artifacts in general, and to artificial - vironments, such as cities, in particular. The link between the two, however, is not trivial. For one thing, the theories of complexity and self-organization originated in the “hard” science and by reference to natural phenomena in physics and bi- ogy. The study of artifacts, per contra, has traditionally been the business of the “soft” disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The notion of “complex artificial environments” thus implies the supposition that the theories of compl- ity and self-organization, together with the mathematical formalisms and meth- ologies developed for their study, apply beyond the domain of nature. Such a s- st position raises a whole set of questions relating to the nature of 21 century cities and urbanism, to philosophical issues regarding the natural versus the artificial, to the methodological legitimacy of interdisciplinary transfer of theories and me- odologies and to the implications that entail the use of sophisticated, state-of-t- art artifacts such as virtual reality (VR) cities and environments. The three-day workshop on the study of complex artificial environments that took place on the island of San Servolo, Venice, during April 1-3, 2004, was a gathering of scholars engaged in the study of the various aspects of CAE.

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"The book represents the current state of thinking in the use of complex systems theory with geospatial technologies for understanding cities. It is organized into five coherent parts. … the book as a whole a unique reference source. In summary, Portugali’s book can be valuable for researchers who deal with the modeling of complex land-use change processes in urban and regional contexts. It can also be used for advanced seminar courses on topics in geosimulation." (Suzana Dragicevic, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48 (2), 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Environmental Simulation Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Juval Portugali

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