Sprawling cities and shrinking regions – forecasting urban growth in the Ruhr for 2025 by coupling cells and agents

Abstract: In the 20th century, the environment of Central Europe was shaped by an extensive growth of urban areas leading to sprawling agglomerations. While the cities’ morphological growth is still proceeding, a second major trend is emerging nowadays: urban decline. Accordingly, the polycentric agglomeration of the Ruhr (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) simultaneously faces a demographic decline and a physical extension. The modeling of both trends is essential in order to estimate their social and ecological impacts. Among urban land-use models are artificial intelligence techniques like cellular automata (CA) and multi-agent systems (MAS). While CA focus on discrete spatial entities, MAS are well-suited to capture individual decision making. This study presents an approach dealing with the integration of both complementary methods: the coupling of the MAS ReHoSh (Residential Mobility and the Housing Market of Shrinking City Systems) and the CA SLEUTH. SLEUTH is one of the best-assessed s.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2744

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Sprawling cities and shrinking regions – forecasting urban growth in the Ruhr for 2025 by coupling cells and agents ; volume:68 ; number:2 ; year:2014 ; Erdkunde ; 68, Heft 2 (2014)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Rienow, Andreas ; Stenger, Dirk ; Menz, Gunter

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2014.02.02
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281759215.203175333102
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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