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Cellular Automata and Fractal Urban Form: A Cellular Modelling Approach to the Evolution of Urban Land-Use Patterns

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  • R White

    (Department of Geography, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada)

  • G Engelen

    (Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, PO Box 463, 6200 AL Maastricht, The Netherlands)

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Cellular automata belong to a family of discrete, connectionist techniques being used to investigate fundamental principles of dynamics, evolution, and self-organization. In this paper, a cellular automaton is developed to model the spatial structure of urban land use over time. For realistic parameter values, the model produces fractal or bifractal land-use structures for the urbanized area and for each individual land-use type. Data for a set of US cities show that they have very similar fractal dimensions. The cellular approach makes it possible to achieve a high level of spatial detail and realism and to link the results directly to general theories of structural evolution.

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  • R White & G Engelen, 1993. "Cellular Automata and Fractal Urban Form: A Cellular Modelling Approach to the Evolution of Urban Land-Use Patterns," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 25(8), pages 1175-1199, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:25:y:1993:i:8:p:1175-1199
    DOI: 10.1068/a251175
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