ABSTRACT
This edited collection, first published in 1987, provides a comparative analysis of different approaches to urban modelling, and lays the foundations for the possibility of integration and a more unified field. The first part contextualises the development of the field of urban systems modelling, focusing on the variety of approaches and possible implications of this on the future of research and methodology. Next, the editors consider economic and ‘non-economic’ approaches, followed by an analysis of spatial-interaction-based approaches. Providing an overview to the field and research literature, the overarching argument is that there should be an integrated methodological approach to urban system modelling.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|76 pages
Urban Systems Modelling: The Context
part 2|174 pages
Economic Approaches
part 3|83 pages
Operational Research
part 4|206 pages
Interaction and Probabilistic Transition Approaches
part 5|56 pages
Methodological Integration